期刊名称：Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica : Natural Sciences in Archaeology
印刷版ISSN：1804-848X
出版年度：2015
卷号：VI
期号：2
页码：133-150
出版社：Archaeological Centre Olomouc
摘要：Mesolithic archaeology in central Sudan, since its very beginnings in the 1940s, has had to deal withthe bad state of preservation and the absence of visible stratification at prehistoric sites. This hasconstituted a major problem not only for the field research itself, but particularly for the subsequentevaluation and interpretation of the findings.This paper is concerned with the field observations and findings made in the 2014 field campaign ofthe mission of the Czech Institute of Egyptology in their excavation of Trench 5 at the Mesolithic siteof Sphinx (SBK.W-60) at Jebel Sabaloka in central Sudan. We describe and discuss the particularmechanisms of the varied post-depositional N-transformations that were encountered in a markedintensity during the fieldwork, their effect on the original anthropogenic deposits, and the consequencesthis has for the methodology and strategies of archaeological excavation.We argue that the stratigraphic excavation method should always constitute the ultimate basis ofan archaeological excavation. However, there are sites and situations in which this may turn out tobe an ideal that is entirely or partly impossible to achieve. For this reason it is paramount that thetraditional method of stratigraphic excavation should be undertaken in conjunction with other, parallelprocedures. In this paper, we present those that we resorted to in 2014 for the excavation of Trench 5.
