Soil studies can reveal how humans in prehistory used the landscape and defined space through their activities. However, these new approaches do not wholly address persistent problems associated with making inferences about past human activity from soils. These challenges include:equifinality; distinguishing property--process relationships; identifying anthropogenic soil processes; the interdependency of the soil forming factors. This paper reviews a new approach to an archaeological research. This approach includes chemical and physical analyses of soil samples. With help of these analyses we can evaluate a past land use, a past natural processes and we can found a buried cultural layer. This approach can be used as a guide to ensure that a rigorous and reproducible approach is taken to the study of soils at archaeological sites. In tis study, the impact of human activity on the pedological environment of soils of the archaeological site Mikulčice-Valy was investigated and use of soils for archaeological use is discussed. Soil samples were collected from five probes (VII. kostel) and from three probes (knížecí palác). These soil properties were investigated: pH, amount of P, Mg, K, Fe and Ca, loss-on-ignition, conduction, texture analysis and physical analysis of sampel.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:176881 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Hladký, Jan |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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