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Waste Management and Waste Disposal Detected by Combination of Analytical Methods: Late Bronze Age Březnice Settlement Site (South Bohemia)
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SYSNO ASEP 0616597 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Waste Management and Waste Disposal Detected by Combination of Analytical Methods: Late Bronze Age Březnice Settlement Site (South Bohemia) Author(s) Šálková, T. (CZ)
Budilová, K. (CZ)
Kovárník, J. (CZ)
Majer, A. (CZ)
Novák, J. (CZ)
Pavelka, J. (CZ)
Strouhalová, B. (CZ)
Vobejda, L. (CZ)
Šťastný, O. (CZ)
Kuna, Martin (ARU-G) RID, SAI, ORCID
Chvojka, O. (CZ)Number of authors 11 Source Title Archaeological Prospection. - : Wiley - ISSN 1075-2196
(2025)Number of pages 24 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country GB - United Kingdom Keywords plant waste ; recycling ; settlement development ; waste disposal Subject RIV AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology OECD category Archaeology R&D Projects GA23-06940S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Method of publishing Open access Institutional support ARU-G - RVO:67985912 UT WOS 001413623900001 EID SCOPUS 85217371822 DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1973 Annotation Waste disposal processes and landfill management are crucial subjects in the field of settlement archaeology. Our study is focused on understanding the processes that are connected to the formation of the infills of settlement features and the recycling of the building materials (daub and wood) and waste management. These research questions are addressed through the analysis of plant macroremains, charcoals, phytoliths, starch, micromorphology, phosphates and magnetic susceptibility. The results show the waste character of feature infills, which reflect the economy of the individual households. The composition of the archaeobotanical assemblages is not influenced by the type of feature, and similarities in the plant spectra often emerge in the features located close to each other. The charcoal and dendrochronological analyses suggest that part of the building's oak timber was recycled and later used as fuelwood. The presence of uncharred remains of vegetative and generative parts in wastes was detected by phytolith and starch analyses and the presence of meat and dung of livestock by animal protein analyses. Anomalies in soil phosphate indicate differing amounts of organic matter in individual features. Magnetic susceptibility measurements showed that each feature infill was formed in a one-time event. The sedimentological analysis demonstrated that the infills of different types of features were similar, but only the infill of Late and Final Bronze Age cultures' specific trench-like features was compacted. All proxies combined suggest that prior deposition of waste in sunken features first accumulated elsewhere and became mixed/homogenized. Workplace Institute of Archaeology (Prague) Contact Lada Šlesingerová, slesingerova@arup.cas.cz, Tel.: 257 014 412 Year of Publishing 2026 Electronic address https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arp.1973
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