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New ERCA Web Site

Recently we have launched a new ERCA (Excelent Centre of Archaeomtery) web site....

06 October, 2020

Soil micromorphology

Sedimentological analysis is important for a cognition of circumstances of origin, function, and termination of archaeological sites. A specific contextual analysis of sediments based on the microscopic study of the in-situ sediments, known as the soil micromorphology, is often necessary for a correct interpretation of...

06 October, 2020

Raw material determination of polished stone tools

In the ERCA centre it is possible to make use of the possibility of scientific determination of a raw material of polished (ground) stone tools. A first step is a macroscopic determination of a raw material with a use of the comparative collection...

06 October, 2020

Raw material determination of chipped lithic artefacts

Raw material determination and determination of its origin is a specific part of the analysis of chipped lithic artefacts. The origins of the lithic raw material analysis are as old as the scientific research of this type of artefacts itself...

05 October, 2020

Archaeobotanical analysis of plant macroremains

Analysis of plant macroremains deals with separation and determination of plant macroremains (seeds, fruits, needles, buds etc.) excavated from archaeological situations. The aim of this analysis is to determine a range of cultural plants and also to reconstruct past agrotechnical practices and processes and agricultural...

05 October, 2020

Scientific drawings of lithics

Documentation of lithics by drawing has been developing since last almost two hundred years. In the case of the oldest drawings, a volume of lithics was depicted by an artistic shading, later by a dense hatching (see e.g. Absolon 1935)...

01 October, 2020

Use-wear analysis of the bone and antler artefacts

Traceology or microscopic use-wear analysis is an archaeological method, which, with a help of a microscope, looks for characteristic traces of usage on surfaces of tools. Sometimes it can help to find also some specific traces of a damage or residua, which can help to...

01 October, 2020

Teeth cementum and dentin microstructures analysis

Teeth cementum microstructures analysis is often used for an age determination of humans and animals. The cementum grows during the entire life of an individual. The cementum growths are studied on thin sections, which are made in the first third of a tooth root...

01 October, 2020

Animal DNA analyses

Archaeogenetic was established as an independent discipline at the beginning of 1990s and it has been developing for many years also in Central Europe (see a conclusive article by Pavelka and Šmejda, 2007)...

01 October, 2020

Stable isotope analyses

Stable isotope analyses (C, N, O and Sr) have been for a relatively long time used in geochemistry, geochronology and geology. The Strontium isotopes ratio (87Sr/86Sr) is used in geology for example for a dating of sea sediments and intrusive igneous rocks...

01 October, 2020