A-B -Cortaillod-Est (SUI). The schematic ground plan of the settlement (A; after Arnold 1990: fig. 24) and the bronze pins found in the cultural layer (B; after Arnold 1990: fig. 33). C-D -Prague-Krč (CZ). Excavation of the settlement layer of the Stroke-Ornamented Ware Culture (excavation and photo by L. Smejtek). E -Prague-Miškovice. The Late Bronze Age storage pit with only the deepest part sunk into the subsoil (excavation and photo by M. Ernée). F -Vliněves (CZ). Early Bronze Age settlement layer (excavation and photo by P. Limburský).

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... questions can be asked as to whether we see any excavated and documented evidence of settlement layers with many preserved features, finds and initial prehistoric occupation surfaces ( Fig. 5C-F). Are we really methodically and mentally ready for it? Why and how should we effectively investigate settlement layers at all? And what do we lose if we continue to ignore them? Preserved prehistoric and early medieval settlement layers also yield, among other things, a range of usually smaller artefacts lost or thrown out onto the ...

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... mentioned above, about 100 pins were lost (complete or broken) in the settlement of Cortaillod-Est during the 45 years of its existence, i.e. approximately 2.2 pins per year (Fig. 5A-B). In Hauterive-Champréveyres, about 600 pins were lost during the 175 years of that settlement's existence, i. e. about 3.4 pins per year. Cortaillod-Est is seen as a medium to small-sized village among the approximately 60 other similar contemporaneous lakeside settlements (Arnold 1990: 124-126, fig. 100) situated on the lakes of ...

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... areas, and the finds from them, such as the chipped stone industry work area at Prague-Krč (excavation by L. Smejtek 2011). In the settlement layer of the Stroked Pottery Culture, hundreds of stone artefacts such as chert, hammerstones, whetstones, semi-finished products, and production refuse, were found preserved over hundreds of m 2 (Fig. 5C-D). With the stone industries too we have good parallels from the above-mentioned Late Bronze Age sites (e. g. Ribaux 1986;Arnold 1986Arnold , 1990 fig. 49; Leuvrey 1999). Another example could be the metallurgical activity areas at the settlement of Hauterive-Champréveyres (Rychner-Faraggi 1993: 30-31, fig. 21-22). And, of course, we can ...

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... Complete loss of above-subsoil features, their structures (or parts thereof) and all finds and information from these contexts (Fig. 5E-F) In terms of settlements with preserved sunken features, or parts thereof, we must not forget all the above-subsoil features and the finds from their fills. In the first figure from the excavation at PragueZáběhlice (Fig. 3E), we can see all the features sunk only into the settlement layers, which we will lose completely if we ignore ...

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... part of the same problem is the often forgotten upper part of features above subsoil level, their deepest parts being sunk into the subsoil, such as the Late Bronze Age storage pits excavated at Prague-Záběhlice ( Fig. 3F; 4C-D) or Prague--Miškovice (Fig. ...

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... cannot be ruled out a priori in the central European landscape, even if in some modified form such as in Niederröblingen, where 'erosion phases of the settlement mound and the deposition of alluvial sediments in the surroundings resulted in the almost complete disappearance of the mound from the recent scenery' (Lubos et al. 2011b: 1101, Fig. 5). But because of this, at least fifteen settlement layers (Lubos et al. 2011b: 1104, Fig. 2, 2013 Fig. 2), with many in situ finds (such as accumulations of pits, postholes, house floors, hearths), were preserved on the site. Among other things, the different prehistoric topography, intensive agricultural land use and resulting erosion ...