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Introduction
Peter Demján currently works at the Department of archaeology of landscape and archaeobiology, The Czech Academy of Sciences. Peter does research in Archaeology.
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May 2016 - present
Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Position
- External contractor
Description
- Archaeological and geospatial analysis of data from the Archaeological Database of Bohemia and large-scale surface survey projects (ALRNB, VKK2013).
April 2012 - December 2012
Monuments Board of the Slovak Republic
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- External contractor
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- Heritage data analysis
January 2012 - October 2014
Position
- Researcher
Description
- Data modeling and management of the Slovak Archaeochronometric Database (c14.sk). Chronometric modeling.
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Radiocarbon dating is an established method that helps to determine the absolute age of archaeological finds. This topical review presents the basic principles of the radiocarbon method, conventions for selecting samples from archaeological contexts, how to handle samples before sending them to the radiocarbon laboratory, laboratory methods for sam...
One of the key unresolved questions regarding the archaeology of La Tène Europe concerns the continuity of settlement around 400 BC. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the countries north of the Alps, including the Czech Republic, declines during this period – a decline which for decades has generally been attributed to population migration....
El dibujo arqueológico es muy importante para el registro de los artefactos que se recuperan de las excavaciones e investigaciones en cualquier campo. Los métodos y técnicas se definen en cada proyecto buscando que respondan a los objetivos de este. Recientemente, gracias al avance y desarrollo de nuevos programas y tecnologías, contamos con nuevas...
Ceramics are one of the commonest sources of archaeological information, yet their abundance often confounds documentation and analysis. This article presents a new method of documenting and analyzing ceramics that includes laser-aided profile measurement to capture ceramic shape and other information quickly and accurately, resulting in digital ou...
Human activities have shaped the environment since long before the advent of agriculture and resulted in anthropogenic landscapes, which are sometimes perceived as natural, but are clearly shaped by dozens of previous generations. This study is the first to apply ecological niche modelling on a long time-series of archaeological data to illuminate...
Triliths are megalithic monuments scattered across the coastal plains of southern and southeastern Arabia. They consist of aligned standing stones with a parallel row of large hearths and form a space, the meaning of which is undoubtedly significant but nonetheless still unknown. This paper presents a new radiocarbon ( ¹⁴ C) dataset acquired during...
Calibrated radiocarbon ( ¹⁴ C) determinations are commonly used in archaeology to assign calendar dates to a site’s chronological phases identified based on additional evidence such as stratigraphy. In the absence of such evidence, we can perform dense ¹⁴ C sampling of the site to attempt to identify periods of heightened activity, separated by per...
This paper, presents formally modelled date estimates for the sequence of Lengyel funerary pottery in western Hungary, eastern Austria and south-west Slovakia. It is an extension of the dating and modelling already carried out by the project, The Times of Their Lives (ToTL), on the major Lengyel aggregation, including burials, at Alsónyék-Bátaszék...
This paper deals with an attempt to understand the meaning of a unique, small and isolated La Tène mountain site, discovered by chance in the forested part of the Šumava National Park, Šumava Mts., Czech Republic, using available archaeological and environmental methods. The activities of a person/small group of people took place repeatedly in an a...
THE BEST POSSIBLE TIME RESOLUTION: HOW PRECISE COULD A RADIOCARBON DATING METHOD BE? – ADDENDUM - I Svetlik, A J T Jull, M Molnár, P P Povinec, T Kolář, P Demján, K Pachnerova Brabcova, V Brychova, D Dreslerová, M Rybníček, P Simek
In recent years, issues of radiocarbon dating have been somewhat overshadowed by the biomolecular revolution, in particular the contributions of aDNA and stable isotopes. Nevertheless, we believe that radiocarbon dating still plays a significant role in the network of scientific methods currently changing the entire discipline of archaeology. Impro...
Today, accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) technology enables us to carry out very precise measurements of radiocarbon ( ¹⁴ C). Unfortunately, due to fluctuations in the ¹⁴ C calibration curve, the resulting calibrated time intervals vary from decades up to centuries in calibrated age. Within a time scale of several decades, we can find several tim...
This study resumes our research into variations in settlement patterns from the Neolithic to the Migration Period (5600 BC–570 AD). After using a large dataset of less precisely localized finds from the Czech Republic, we now examine data from large-scale surface surveys. The higher spatial precision allows us to analyse settlement activities in te...
The mechanisms of settlement and land use in prehistory can be examined by testing the hypothesis that variations in spatio-temporal distribution of archaeological evidence of settlements mirror changes of the actual settlement patterns. To test this, we need a mathematical model describing the relation between the quantity of evidence and intensit...
Since 2016, one of the most important projects in the history of Slovak archaeology takes place in the Southern Mesopotamia. It is the archaeological project SAHI – Tell Jokha. This project is researching an important site where, according to the current state of scientific research, in the 3rd millennium BC, dominated Sumerian settlement. As far a...
V příspěvku se zabýváme modelováním sídlištních aktivit v krajině na základě zpracování velkých souborů dat z povrchových průzkumů a záznamů z Archeologické databáze Čech. V první fázi analyzujeme povrchové soubory z hlediska prostorové struktury, datování a vazby na environmentální parametry. Výsledkem analýzy je vznik prostorově a časově vymezený...
If we strive to reconstruct the once-living culture of a prehistoric community using archaeological evidence, we need to elaborate a theoretical model based on known facts which can be validated using available archaeological data (artefacts). Such a model must meet the criteria of a scientific hypothesis i.e. be based on, and in accordance with ve...
Large-scale rescue excavations or synthetic studies, collecting data across multiple regions produce extensive databases, which make archaeological analysis using the traditional empirical approach impossible. The availability of increasingly more powerful computers allows for the use of advanced mathematical modeling to address specific issues ari...
We analyse variations in prehistoric agricultural settlement behaviour both in space and time to detect main turning points and shifts in settlement patterns in Bohemia, western Czech Republic. We propose a theoretical framework to address our research question and a new evidence density estimation (EDE) method combining and extending existing appr...
Práca sa zaoberá priestorovou štruktúrou a chronologickým vývojom sídliska z najstaršej fázy lengyelskej kultúry (4900-4700 cal BC) na lokalite Svodín - Busahegy, okr. Nové Zámky. Postup riešenia vychádza z teórie sídelných areálov a všeobecnejšie z teórie artefaktov. Použitá evidencia pozostáva z nálezov z 1756 objektov, z toho 679 patrí lengyelsk...
The thesis deals with spatial structure and chronological development of the early Lengyel Culture (4900-4700 cal BC) settlement at the site Svodín - Busahegy in Nové Zámky district, SW Slovakia. The approach is based on the settlement area theory and more generally on the theory of artefacts. The used evidence consists finds from 1756 features, of...
Statistical Analysis in Archaeology.
The period after initial development of Neolithic society in Central Europe, known as the Post-LBK era, is marked by an influx of new cultural stimuli from the South and the emergence of formalization in monumental architecture, resulting in a cultural diversification while maintaining significant common traits across different regions. An importan...
Příspěvek navazuje na téma nastolené na minulé konferenci PPA a snaží se odpovědět na otázku, zda může velkoobjemová archeologická databáze sloužit k modelování relativní hustoty osídlení. Základní myšlenka vychází z představy britských archeologů, že větší hustoty archeologických lokalit datovaných archeochronometrickými metodami (14C, dendro aj.)...
The undergoing archaeometric analysis of settlement burials (project APVV-0598-10) and complex processing of archaeological material from large-scale excavations of the polycultural site Svodín-Busahegy (project VEGA 1/0924/12) provide new evidence about chronological, spatial and social relations within the Lengyel Culture settlement. The site off...
Archeologické dáta vo všeobecnosti môžeme považovať za priestorové, pričom práve priestorová informácia je dôležitým atribútom pri ich analýze, na základe ktorej vyvodzujeme závery o existencii objektov v krajine, živote ľudí a priebehu udalostí na určitom mieste v minulosti. Spracovanie veľkých objemov archeologických informácií je sťažené tzv. dá...
Archeologické dáta vo všeobecnosti môžeme považovať za priestorové, pričom práve priestorová informácia je dôležitým atribútom pri ich analýze, na základe ktorej vyvodzujeme závery o existencii objektov v krajine, živote ľudí a priebehu udalostí na určitom mieste v minulosti. Spracovanie veľkých objemov archeologických informácií je sťažené tzv. dá...
When formulating scientific hypotheses which fulfill the rejectability criterion, the archaeologist is faced with the challenge of choosing a representative sample from often highly fragmentary data. The natural scientific approach of random and repeated sampling is possible only in the case of highly abundant archaeological records mostly of natur...
The basic axiom of a frequency seriation is always the unimodal, Gaussian distribution of specific attributes of the seriated contexts in time. In archaeological practice, we often encounter attributes that are not normally distributed, achieve multiple peaks of popularity over time or produce no regular chronological distribution patterns. In this...
The application of evolutionary algorithms in seriation of archaeological contexts.
This study explores social relations indicated by the variability in burial rite using multivariate statistic methods. The find assemblage from the Lengyel Culture settlement in Svodín allows the detection of statistically relevant relationships between grave inventories and certain social groups. Burials of individuals with a specific social statu...
The application of typological methods is a well-known means to find regularities within an archaeological assemblage. A formalized approach is needed when dealing with larger sets of data to eliminate bias arising from defining types a priori and searching for structures which we already expect to exist. By creating a quantitative descriptive syst...
Environmental conditions such as climate, topography, and soil conditions had an impact on prehistoric settlement strategies. By studying changes in settlement structure in the Nitra, Hron and Ipel' valleys in southern Slovakia over the course of the Neolithic and Eneolithic, preferences for various climatic and topographic environments in differen...
Environmental conditions such as climate, topography, and soil conditions had an impact on prehistoric settlement strategies. By studying changes in settlement structure in the Nitra, Hron and Ipel’ valleys in southern Slovakia over the course of the Neolithic and Eneolithic, preferences for various climatic and topographic environments in differen...
Cataloging, processing and evaluation of 111 burial finds from a Lengyel Culture settlement in Svodín, Southwest Slovakia, dated cca 4800 calBC.
Katalogizácia, spracovanie a vyhodnotenie hrobových nálezov zo sídliska lengyelskej kultúry vo Svodíne. Aplikácia počítačovo podporovaných postupov a formalizovaných typologických metód viedli k vypracova...
Settlement structure and settlement strategies in different periods of time constitute an important part of any attempt at ancient landscape reconstruction. In this paper we shall attempt to apply the methods of archaeoinformatics in order to study settlement strategies of prehistoric populations. A special attention will be paid to the question of...
Vytvorenie základu pre elektronickú databázu nálezov zo sídliska lengyelskej kultúry vo Svodíne a geodatabázu umožňujúcu vytvorenie elektronického modelu tohto sídliska a jeho priestorovú analýzu v prostredí GIS. Ako vzorka bolo použitých 35 hrobov z areálu rondelov. Bol vytvorený ich katalóg a uskutočnené štatistické analýzy a vizualizácie, poukaz...
