Tereza Šálková, Tomáš Hiltscher, Dagmar Dreslerová, Lenka Kovačíková, Jaroslav Jiřík
The Benefits of Using Radiocarbon Dating and an Interdisciplinary Approach for Identifying Contamination of Archaeological Find Assemblages. A Case Study from the Multi-period Settlement Site at Rakovice, Czech Republic
Číslo: 1/2020
Periodikum: Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica
DOI: 10.24916/iansa.2020.1.2
Klíčová slova: contamination taphonomy plant macroremains Linum usitatissimum radiocarbon dating archaeology
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go undetected. In this article we seek to highlight this problem through analysis of the fill of settlement
features from a site at Rakovice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. After a detailed spatial evaluation
of different categories of finds, an analysis of plant macroremains, and radiocarbon dating, what had
originally appeared to be a clear-cut archaeological situation of the superposition of two features
from the Roman and Early Mediaeval periods was shown to be much more complex. This discovery
confirmed the value of a multi-disciplinary approach and especially of radiocarbon dating even in
apparently simple contexts. What we are especially concerned about is the risk of assigning particular
periods to multi-period sites that have been insufficiently radiocarbon dated.