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Ravat: agriculture written in soil
More than 25 km of irrigation canals, over 90 fields and 45 homesteads show that prehistoric households managed their own plots but shared seasonal water through a coordinated system.
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Wenceslas Square: urban life below the surface
Dark Earth, biomarkers and geochemistry record market activity, waste and everyday medieval urban life. The sedimentary archive also preserves a trace linked to an extreme rainfall event around AD 1280.
Story materials →Mikulčice: how Dark Earth formed
Research shows that repeated levelling of wet ground with permeable sands, followed by deposition and biological mixing of waste, contributed to Dark Earth formation.
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