Blót Houses in Viking Age Farmstead Cult Practices

Charcoal analyses as an environmental tool for the study of Early Medieval sunken houses infills in Roztoky near Prague, Czech Republic

“…The composition of these infills has been long discussed in studies focused on the construction technology and the purpose of archaeological features, their usage, and the reasons of their abandonment (Dolukhanov, 1996, Simpson et al, 1999Einarsson, 2008). Usually, the subdivision into horizons within the studied features was based on a combination of visual attributes, archaeological or archaeobotanical remains.…”