Foreword and acknowledgement (M. Gojda) // 1. INTRODUCTION (M. Gojda) 17 // 2. NON-DESTRUCTIVE ARCHAEOLOGY AND ITS APPLICABILITY WITHIN THE PSPB PROJECT 23 // 2.1. Introduction (M. Gojda) 23 // 2.2. Aerial survey (M. Gojda) 25 // 2.3. Geophysical prospection. New perspectives for settlement studies // in Bohemia (R. Krivánek) 39 // 2.4. Beyond identification: dating sites by surface artefact survey and // the information from test excavations (M. Kuna) 72 // 3. PREHISTORIC LANDSCAPE AND SETTLEMENT DYNAMICS // IN THE LOWLAND ZONE 91 // 3.1. Introduction (M. Gojda) 91 // 3.2. Features and sites in the view of non-destructive archaeology (M. Gojda) 92 // 3.3. Settlement zones and settlement areas (M. Gojda) 117 // 3.4. Holocene environmental processes and alluvial archaeology in the middle Labe (Elbe) valley (D. Dreslerová, E. Břízová) 121 // 3.5. The effect of local human-impact histories on the development of Holocene vegetation. Case studies from central Bohemia (P. Pokorný) 171 // 3.6. The Labe (Elbe) valley after prehistory. Notes on the reconstruction of the late medieval landscape ofthe Melník region (P.Meduna) 185 // 4. ENCLOSED AREAS: LARGE SITES WITH SOCIAL AND RITUAL FUNCTIONS 189 // 4.1. Introduction (M. Gojda) 189 // 4.2. Enclosures and fortifications (M. Gojda) 189 // 4.5. Large enclosing double ditch at Kly (distr. Melník): a small-scale test excavation report (P. Foster) 195 // 4.4. Large ditched enclosure at Chleby (distr. Nymburk): a small-scale test excavation report (P. Foster) 214 // 4.5. Fieldwork at the promontory enclosed site near Vepřek (distr. Mělník) (M. Kuna) 227 // 4.6. Test excavation of a triple ditch system at the Přívory promontory site distr. Mělník) (N. Profantová) 235 // 4.7. Test excavation of a prehistoric causewayed enclosure at the Řípec hill, Trpoměchy (distr. Kladno) (P. Foster) 241 //
4.8. Quadrangular enclosure at Rakovice (distr. Písek) (P. Foster, N. Venclová, R. Krivánek)_249 // 5. FUNERARY AREAS 267 // 5.1. Introduction (M. Gojda) 267 // 5.2. The excavation of a small rectangular enclosure at Černouček (distr. Litomerice) (Ž. Brnic, P. Sankot) 268 // 5.3. The excavation of a funerary area at Uhy (distr. Kladno) (J. Sofaer, J. Turek) 286 // 5.4. Continuity of funerary areas (L. Šmejda) 305 // 6. PRODUCTION AREAS AND INDUSTRIAL ZONES 317 // 6.1. Production and its social and economic context (N. Venclová) 317 // 6.2. Iron production areas in prehistoric Bohemia (N. Venclová) 319 // 6.3. The iron smelting area at Mšecké Žehrovice 111 (N. Venclová) 325 // 6.4. The iron smelting area at Honice (N.Venclová) 334 // 6.5. Geophysical survey of prehistoric iron production areas (R. Krivánek) 336 // 7. PREHISTORIC SETTLEMENT IN THE HIGHER GROUNDS 341 // 7.1. Introduction (M. Gojda) 341 // 7.2. The North Práchensko region in prehistory (D. Dreslerová) 342 // 7.3. The Prachatice region as a peripheral territory of the Bohemian Basin in prehistory (P. Zavřel, M. Parkman) 364 8 9 // 8. POSTGLACIAL VEGETATION DISTRIBUTION IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO SETTLEMENT ZONES: REVIEW FROM OFF-SITE POLLEN DATA (P. Pokorný) 395 // 8.1. Introduction 395 // 8.2. The data and their analyses 396 // 8.3. The list of investigated sites 401 // 8.4. Settlement zones identification based on pollen indicators of human impact 407 // 8.5. Results and discussion 407 // 9. CONCLUSION (M. Gojda) 415 // Bibliography 419 // Resumé (Czech summary) 441