Original title: From single feature to settlement pattern, landscape and society: a methodological approach to castellological research
Authors: Novák, David
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists /19./, Plzeň (CZ), 2013-09-04 / 2013-09-08
Year: 2014
Language: eng
Abstract: Fortified manors are in the scope of interest from the 19th century and at present, we have solid and complex knowledge base, which can be evaluated to obtain interesting results. Most of the published papers dealing with fortified manors have undergone basic chronological and typological analysis without further interest in their spatial attributes or their relation to the hinterland. This fact and underestimation of quantitative analysis and statistics may be explained in the context of the culture-history paradigm, still prevailing in Czech archaeology. Alternatively, perhaps, it is just a result of the methodological inability of many archaeologists to deal with large data sets. As a response to this situation, the author attempts to look at fortified manors in another way - through statistical methods and using GIS. Paper is aimed to present methodology used in case study of selected region in western part of Central Bohemia as a sample.
Keywords: fortified manors; GIS; methodology; Middle Ages and Renaissance; principal component analysis
Project no.: DF12P01OVV003 (CEP)
Funding provider: GA MK
Host item entry: Student Archaeology in Europe 2014, ISBN 978-80-261-0420-9

Institution: Institute of Archaeology, Prague AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0244634

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