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Some Remarks on the Study of Prehistoric Structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Slavomil Vencl
Slavomil Vencl*
Affiliation:
Československá Akademie Véd, Archeologicky Ustav Praha, Letenská 4 (Czechoslovakia)
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Abstract

The present article responds to questions raised by Marshall (1969). Based on European material, the author concludes that engineering principles cannot be universally applied, despite some obviously positive results. Before reconstructing an object, the completeness of its preserved remains should be taken into account and the preserved floor plan should be supplemented with those elements that have vanished. To use only what actually remains of a house floor in making a reconstruction presupposes that the layout is fully preserved, and this is of course not always the case. The English version of this paper was translated from the original Czech manuscript by H. Martin Wobst, University of Michigan.

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American Antiquity , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , October 1971 , pp. 451 - 455
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1971

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