How were the ditches filled? Sedimentological and micromorphological classification of formation processes within graben-like archaeological objects

0444259 - GLÚ 2016 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Lisá, Lenka - Komoróczy, Balázs - Vlach, Marek - Válek, M. - Bajer, A. - Kovárník, J. - Rajtár, J. - Hüssen, C.-M. - Šumberová, Radka
How were the ditches filled? Sedimentological and micromorphological classification of formation processes within graben-like archaeological objects.
Quaternary International. Roč. 370, 3 June (2015), s. 66-76. ISSN 1040-6182. E-ISSN 1873-4553
Grant - others:Rada Programu interní podpory projektů mezinárodní spolupráce AV ČR(CZ) M300011201
Program: M
Institutional support: RVO:67985831 ; RVO:68081758 ; RVO:67985912
Keywords : formation processes * micromorphology * Neolithic rondel structures * Roman ditch * sedimentology * V-shaped ditch
Subject RIV: AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology
Impact factor: 2.067, year: 2015

The ways of infilling archaeological objects are among the most common questions given to geoarchaeologists. Convenient subjects for the study of formation processes of archaeological terrain features (contexts) are V-shaped ditches. Their infilling is usually lithologicaly and texturally considerably variable with regular morphology and special archaeological context. The V-shaped ditches are known only from two chronologically, culturally distinctive periods. In first case there are ditches of "rondels" from the Late Neolithic Period, in the second case we are dealing with the fortification ditches of the Roman temporary camps. On the basis of sedimentological and consequently micromophological study, processes were differentiated in the formation of studied infillings. However, it is possible to trace similar formation processes in both groups of studied V-shaped ditches and to define a basic classification. Prevailing textural and structural features are distinctively different between the groups, due to geological subsoil conditions, hydrological regime and depth of the ditches.
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