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Living houses, termination rituals and the „big data“ from settlement discard

SYSNO ASEP	0550951
Document Type	A - Abstract
R&D Document Type	O - Ostatní
Title	Living houses, termination rituals and the „big data“ from settlement discard
Author(s)	Kuna, Martin (ARU-G)_{RID, SAI, ORCID}
Number of authors	1
Action	Central European Theoretical Archaeology Group /7./ - Theoretical Approaches to Computational Archaeology
Event date	19.10.2021 - 20.10.2021
VEvent location	Brno
Country	CZ - Czech Republic
Event type	EUR
Language	eng - English
Keywords	deposition ; formation processes ; closing ritual ; prehistoric house
Subject RIV	AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology
OECD category	Archaeology
R&D Projects	EF16_013/0001439 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS)
Research Infrastructure	AIS CR II - 90134 - Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Brno, v. v. i.
Annotation	The presentation was based on the „big data“ obtained by measuring non-typological attributes of several tens of thousands of pottery fragments from prehistoric settlements, in this case especially from the Late Bronze Age site in Březnice (South Bohemia). The key idea of the presentation was that without large sets of laboriously obtained and seemingly useless data, little progress can be made in understanding some of the phenomena in prehistoric archaeology. However, new perspectives may appear only if the data is placed into the context of the relevant archaeological theory. To illustrate this point, data on pottery fragmentation was collected, which helped the author to understand how particular settlement features (trenches with burnt pottery and house debris) were created. The past behaviour that was reconstructed in this could not be explained outside the broader context of settlement dynamics, including periodical destructions and rebuilding of homesteads. Some elements of the current development of archaeological theory are employed (assemblage theory, ontological turn).
Workplace	Institute of Archaeology (Prague)
Contact	Lada Šlesingerová, slesingerova@arup.cas.cz, Tel.: 257 014 412
Year of Publishing	2022

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