Možnosti lokalizace zaniklých sídel na Rakovnicku

Abstract

The article summarises the development and preferential use of formal and informal methods for the study of specific archaeological contexts. It evaluates how these two approaches that have so often stood in opposition can be used on the archaeological sites of deserted medieval villages. The villages of Mstěnice and Pfaffenschlag are presented as case studies and on these it is demonstrated how e.g. visibility analysis can be used to reveal new facts and offer new perspectives on the interpretation of space and architecture routinely found on medieval village sites.