Modelling the process of stratification in medieval urban deposits

Abstract

Urban archaeology deals mainly with multilayer sites. On account of the age, thickness, ways and conditions of the layer's accumulation, urban deposits are characterised by ex-cellent state of preservation of components, structure and accompanying features. Gene-rally it was a rescue of the dynamics of accumulation, which, as a rule, testifies mainly short incoherent episodes regulated by ceaseless levellings. By reason of that, each of the investigated layers should be eliminated and deterrnined. Beside of a precise description of components and physical features of the whole layers, the character and spread of their accumulation should be univocally specified. The set of such "defined" layers, drawn up in a stratigraphical sequence, deterrnines the process of stratification of the site. Such a reconstruction is of a greatest value in a further, detailed analysis on dating and func-tion of the exposed features.