Posters by Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik
Filtering the airborne laser scanning data is a key step in producing suitable digital terrain mo... more Filtering the airborne laser scanning data is a key step in producing suitable digital terrain models (DTMs) for archaeological interpretation. We want digital terrain models to accurately represent archaeological features, while at the same time we want to get rid of all the landscape clutter. This is challenging task, especially for areas with complex relief or hybrid geographic features. There are many interconnected and non-intuitive parameters to choose from. Therefore we either stick with default parameters or use some predefined parameters that seem to work good enough.
Karstic landscape is a specifi c heritage, where surface and
underground are part of single land... more Karstic landscape is a specifi c heritage, where surface and
underground are part of single landscape. Where underground (caves, shafts...) played an important role in the development of surface. Landscape where natural an anthropogenic processes worked hand in hand. Caves were often treated as being separate from the outside landscape, recorded in isolation form landscape which they are part of. However, this complex heritage requires integrative methodologies, that would integrate cave record with the landscape.
The castellieri landscapes have been studied almost exclusively from the perspective of hillforts... more The castellieri landscapes have been studied almost exclusively from the perspective of hillforts, treating them as as isolated points in an empty space. However, recent surveys using remote sensing techniques (especially Airborne Laser Scanning, ALS) have revealed a host of different traces in a landscape, such as settlements, trackways, burial mounds, enclosures... One of the most surprising discoveries are traces of prehistoric fields divisions.
Most common traces of prehistoric field divisions are cairnfields, scattered heaps of stones, result of surface clearance. Cairinfields are sometimes associated with unenclosed elements, such as low stone walls and short flights of lynchets (cultivation terraces). In some cases irregular accreted field systems can be identified, defined largely by low, curving earthworks, that delineate small irregular conjoined field plots. Frequently, traces of field division are related to other features; they cluster around open settlements or hillforts, incorporate trackways and are associated with linear boundary earthworks.
Traces of prehistoric field divisions are truncated by medieval ridge and furrow fields or overlaid by low stone walls that demarcate modern field division.
Study of land divisions opens new questions related to castellieri landscapes such as land tenure, interactions between land use, kinship and community as well as day-to-day agricultural practice. Creation of material traces through daily practices of agriculture and clearance reinforced bounded places, imposed ideas of social order and, materialised social relations in the texture of the land.
The identification of herd exploitation strategies poses a number of challenges to the archaeolog... more The identification of herd exploitation strategies poses a number of challenges to the archaeological research. The question which was the main animal product is not important only in the context of economics. Different labour requirements connected with milch and meat pastoralism play a crucial role in shaping social relations of production and therefore influence every pore of life.
What makes complex sites complex? Sites, like landscapes, are not static. They change, they move,... more What makes complex sites complex? Sites, like landscapes, are not static. They change, they move, they are constantly under construction, never finished. There is no time to clear the mess and start from scratch. People patch the new from the old, build over, change and modify thing that are already there. Complex sites are thus full of traces of past practices that combine in a complex ways. Time is inscribed in its very constitution at multiple levels and scales. Complex sites are thus just sites; they are not just large assemblage of features and they are not just palimpsests, result of simple layering. Instead, they are part of a landscape a continuum of features combined together a complex, messy ways. This complexity requires different sensibilities in interpreting remote sensing data.
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Posters by Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik
underground are part of single landscape. Where underground (caves, shafts...) played an important role in the development of surface. Landscape where natural an anthropogenic processes worked hand in hand. Caves were often treated as being separate from the outside landscape, recorded in isolation form landscape which they are part of. However, this complex heritage requires integrative methodologies, that would integrate cave record with the landscape.
Most common traces of prehistoric field divisions are cairnfields, scattered heaps of stones, result of surface clearance. Cairinfields are sometimes associated with unenclosed elements, such as low stone walls and short flights of lynchets (cultivation terraces). In some cases irregular accreted field systems can be identified, defined largely by low, curving earthworks, that delineate small irregular conjoined field plots. Frequently, traces of field division are related to other features; they cluster around open settlements or hillforts, incorporate trackways and are associated with linear boundary earthworks.
Traces of prehistoric field divisions are truncated by medieval ridge and furrow fields or overlaid by low stone walls that demarcate modern field division.
Study of land divisions opens new questions related to castellieri landscapes such as land tenure, interactions between land use, kinship and community as well as day-to-day agricultural practice. Creation of material traces through daily practices of agriculture and clearance reinforced bounded places, imposed ideas of social order and, materialised social relations in the texture of the land.