January 2019

Poland – settlement research and community archaeology to date

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Poland has one the highest rates of rurality in Europe and a long rich tradition of rural settlement studies (Wójcik 2009; 2012). This is primarily understood through historical data and characterized by elaborated forms of mapping settlement spatial arrangements, encompassing villages with different origins and forms as well as exploring the same village at various… Read more Poland – settlement research and community archaeology to date

Czech Republic – settlement research and community archaeology to date

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Research into rural settlement in the Czech Republic over several decades has shown many nucleated villages which developed from the 13th century were dramatically disrupted by the Thirty Years´ War (1618-1648) and in the 20th century by post-1945 ethnic cleansing in former Sudetenland, communist collectivisation and post-1989 privatisation which has developed new forms of agro-tourism… Read more Czech Republic – settlement research and community archaeology to date

The Netherlands – settlement research and community archaeology to date

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Research context: A recent study of Dutch village formation (Verspay et al 2017) highlighted the importance of systematically studying the built environment of villages to understand the processes leading to village formation but recognised that good archaeological data from CORS are generally lacking. There is interest in the biography of landscape approach to the long-term… Read more The Netherlands – settlement research and community archaeology to date

United Kingdom – settlement research and community archaeology to date

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In the UK rural settlement has long been an important area of research for medieval archaeologists (Gerrard 2003; Christie and Stamper 2012), and many deserted and shrunken rural settlements have been archaeologically investigated, using a range of techniques. However, medieval settlements which did not become permanently depopulate have been somewhat overlooked. As CORS represent c.… Read more United Kingdom – settlement research and community archaeology to date