A-B -Prague-Záběhlice (CZ). The density of pottery in the strata of the pit fill, in pieces per m 3 (A) and in kg per m 3 (B). C-D -Prague-Záběhlice (CZ). Storage pit No. 523 (C) and No. 503 (D). E-F -Prague-Záběhlice (CZ). Features sunk in from strata 6-9 (E) and 10-13 (F). A-F drawn by M. Ernée. G -The consequences of erosion for the preservation of the archaeological features (after Gringmuth-Dalmer -Leciejewicz eds. 2002: fig. 168). H -Prague-Miškovice (CZ). Bronze artefacts from the Late Bronze Age settlement layer after conservation (photo by M. Ernée, various scales).

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... distribution (density) of pot sherds in the fill of the sunken pits was not homogeneous -it was very variable. This can be seen in the case of four completely excavated storage pits (from the original prehistoric soil surface) (Fig. 4A-D). In the single documented layer of the pit fills, the sherd density varies between 0 and 2000 sherds per m 3 ( Fig. 4A; average density = 352 sherds/m 3 ) and between 0 and 50 kg per m 3 ( Fig. 4B; average density = 6.3 kg/m 3 ). The situation is very similar for other kinds of ar-tefacts and ecofacts (animal bones, macro remains, ...

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... (density) of pot sherds in the fill of the sunken pits was not homogeneous -it was very variable. This can be seen in the case of four completely excavated storage pits (from the original prehistoric soil surface) (Fig. 4A-D). In the single documented layer of the pit fills, the sherd density varies between 0 and 2000 sherds per m 3 ( Fig. 4A; average density = 352 sherds/m 3 ) and between 0 and 50 kg per m 3 ( Fig. 4B; average density = 6.3 kg/m 3 ). The situation is very similar for other kinds of ar-tefacts and ecofacts (animal bones, macro remains, charcoal, snails, etc.), thus in all the find material in the pit fills. This means that the deepest parts of the sunken ...

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... -it was very variable. This can be seen in the case of four completely excavated storage pits (from the original prehistoric soil surface) (Fig. 4A-D). In the single documented layer of the pit fills, the sherd density varies between 0 and 2000 sherds per m 3 ( Fig. 4A; average density = 352 sherds/m 3 ) and between 0 and 50 kg per m 3 ( Fig. 4B; average density = 6.3 kg/m 3 ). The situation is very similar for other kinds of ar-tefacts and ecofacts (animal bones, macro remains, charcoal, snails, etc.), thus in all the find material in the pit fills. This means that the deepest parts of the sunken features are not a priori representative of either the whole feature, the whole ...

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... late phase, strata 6-9). Settlement layer, with finds in situ, larger sunken features, mainly storage pits, with some subphases -the features are sunk from different levels of the stratigraphy (Fig. ...

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... early phase, strata 10-13). Settlement layer, post-hole structures, no storage pits (Fig. ...

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... prehistoric times, the topography was very different from today´s in most regions; the initial prehistoric relief was more broken, hilly and emphasised. Today´s topography is more featureless, with reduced relief following hundreds of years of cultivation, erosion and accumulation processes ( Fig. 4G; see also below -the tell-like multi-layered settlement near Niederröblingen, central Germany; Lubos et al. 2011aLubos et al. , 2011bLubos et al. , 2013Ganslmeier 2011aGanslmeier , 2011bGanslmeier and Nebe 2011;Petersen 2011, andother in Meller ed. ...

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... mechanical and chemical preservation they look like pieces of distorted wire. But after preservation they turn into sophisticated small artefacts such as awls, small chisels, pins, broken or deformed (albeit finely) decorated bracelets, i.e. lost artefacts (tools or jewellery) of daily use -a category of artefacts we often do not find elsewhere (Fig. ...

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... 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 find various deposits in settlement layers such as the deposit of 466 bronze objects and 9 glass beads, dating to the Ha A2-B1 period (the end of the ...

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... the analyses show, we must always take into consideration that the deepest parts of the sunken features, which we usually capture (identify) during archaeological excavations, do not always provide the richest finds or information (Fig. 4A-B), and the majority is not even representative (chronologically, functionally, palaeoecologically, etc.) of the entire sunken feature, including its above-subsoil parts, by now ...

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... example is the lower parts (the lowest 30 cm) of the fill of the four completely excavated storage pits, No. 502, 504, 506 and No. 525, at Prague-Záběhlice (Fig. 4A-B). The lowest 30 cm of these four storage pits makes up between 23 % (525) and 42 % of their volume (an average of 29.3 %). The deepest parts of these pits yielded between 7.1 % (525) and 25.8 % (on average 17.9 %) of all sherds, by weight therefore between 4 % (525) and 50.7 % (an average of 35 %). For comparision, we can mention the ...