
Kaarel SikkMasaryk University | MUNI
Kaarel Sikk
PhD
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January 2012 - January 2015
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Theoretical developments are needed to interpret the increasing amount of large-scale spatial data about past settlements. So far, settlement patterns have mostly been considered as passive imprints of past human activities and most theories are limited to ecological processes. Locational and spatial interactions have scarcely been included as long...
Our knowledge of the geography of medieval religious dissent and its repression in the Latin West is limited by a lack of systematic study of locational information in inquisition trial records. Spatial analysis of these rich details has the potential to help build a bottom-up picture of interaction between dissidents and inquisitors that moves bey...
The article was published in Archaeological Fieldwork in Estonia 2022, pp. 107-114. The discovery of the iron smelting sites of Rihula in 2016 brought about some new questions about iron production in the area. In 2022, archaeological excavations were carried out on the II site. It was determined that the esker the smelting site was on is covered b...
Archaeology and the related fields of geography and anthropology have a long history of debate of environmental determinism going beyond discussing methodological issues (e.g., Arponen, Dorfler, Feeser, Grimm, Groß, Hinz, Knitter, Müller-Scheeßel, Ott, Ribeiro, Archaeol Dialogues 26(1):1–9, 2019). The environment’s influence on social processes has...
Inductive locational models have been used for decades to map the probability of past settlements and identify the preferred environmental conditions for habitation. In this study we apply inductive modelling to compare the spatial structure of the settlement systems of hunter-fisher-gatherer groups (Narva and Combed Ware Culture) and early agraria...
The behavioural ecological approach to anthropology states that the density and distribution of resources determines optimal patterns of resource use and also sets its constraints to grouping, mobility and settlement choice. Central place foraging (CPF) models have been used for analyzing foraging behaviours of hunter-gatherers and drawing a causal...
Fireplaces and burnt stones related to them are common features found at Stone Age settlement sites. Although information
about them is present in archaeological reports and also available in publications, there has been no general research done regarding
combustion features specifically. The purpose of this study was to fill the gap of relevant re...