Some geological events of artefacts on archaeological sites example of Dzierzyslaw archaeological site

摘要

This paper presents field and laboratory investigations concerning artefacts sinking in archaeological sites. These phenomena take place on most of archaeological sites Most probably this process affect all categories of artefacts. Because of the time stone age sites are the best places to investigate sinking of artefacts. The correct interpretation of archaeological facts on the site could be based only on consciousness of the processes mentioned in this article,. The particular example used here is Dzierzyslaw Magdalenian site and excavations on it as well as laboratory tests with "contemporaneous" flint flakes. Experiments concerning migration of artefacts confirmed various rate of their migration. Phenomenon is the result of shape of implements their weight as well as conditions at sediment. Small and flat objects migrated down slowly while isometric and heavy, faster Was observed that during sinking tested objects did complicated motions. This suggest that artefacts discovered at archaeological sites are at various stages of migration. Moreover one can see that mentioned "activity" of objects is often various at various parts of one archaeological site.