Space organisation and zone of activities on the early medieval homestead at Pohansko (Czechia)

PRIŠŤÁKOVÁ, Michaela, Katarína ADAMEKOVÁ, Jan PETŘÍK and Lubomír PROKEŠ. Space organisation and zone of activities on the early medieval homestead at Pohansko (Czechia). In 28th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. 2022. ISBN 978-80-88441-01-4.

Basic information

• Original name: Space organisation and zone of activities on the early medieval homestead at Pohansko (Czechia)
• Authors: PRIŠŤÁKOVÁ, Michaela, Katarína ADAMEKOVÁ, Jan PETŘÍK and Lubomír PROKEŠ.
• Edition: 28th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, 2022.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 60102 Archaeology
• Country of publisher: Hungary
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• ISBN: 978-80-88441-01-4
• Keywords (in Czech): archeologie; raný středověk; Pohansko; geochemie
• Keywords in English: archaeology; early medieval; Pohansko; geochemistry

Abstract

The Early Medieval stronghold Pohansko is archaeologically excavated for more than 60. years, with excavations still ongoing. The central area of the stronghold consists of several homesteads, roads, burial grounds, church and more. So far, a total of seven rectangular or slightly longitudinal homesteads have been excavated and another 12 were recognised by geophysical prospection. The inner structure of the homesteads consists of several archaeological features located mostly along the edge of the homestead, with open space in the middle of the homestead. The homesteads themselves and their internal organisation have not yet been explored in detail. By geoarchaeological prospection techniques we attempted to identify archaeological structures and thus define the internal spatial organisation of the selected unexcavated homestead and to identify the zones of activities and interpret it in the terms of function. By combining magnetometry, magnetic susceptibility, spatial distribution of the microartefacts and multivariate statistical analysis, we outlined various manifestations of anthropogenic activity. We defined open space in with no detected activity in the middle of the homestead, the potential presence of non-sunken features, waste management at the homestead and non-ferrous metal production and possibly metalworking at or/and close to the homestead.

Links

• MUNI/A/1255/2020, interní kód MU: Name: Geochemické mapovanie včasne stredovekých ľudských aktivít v antropogénne ovplyvnených pôdach a sedimentoch na Pohansku u Břeclavi

Investor: Masaryk University