Is there a story that floor layers tell us about human history? A set of former floors were investigated using a combination of micromorphology, ethnography and macroremain analyses at a former mill in Dolní Němčí in the eastern part of the Czech Republic. The floor layers had been accumulating since the end of the eighteenth century. A recently made earth floor, maintained for nearly 20 years, four times per year, in accordance with local knowledge passed down from mothers to daughters, formed the topmost layer. The main aim of the paper is: (1) to examine and contrast morphological characteristics of floors against known practices, which will be a useful reference for archaeological examples; (2) to compare the observations/findings to established knowledge of processes of floor formation. The structure of former floor layers preserved below the recent floor provided an indication of how floor care practices changed over the centuries, how these differed in different parts of the house and possible accumulation rate of the floor layer. This research illustrates that the micromorphological study of recent floors combined with ethnographic knowledge and macroremain analyses is a valuable methodological approach for the interpretation of archaeological case studies.

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地板：人类生命的呼声-捷克共和国DolníNěmčíMill的历史和近期地板的人种志地理研究

有没有故事说地板层告诉我们人类历史？在捷克共和国东部DolníNěmčí的一家前工厂中，结合微观形态学，人种学和宏观残留分析，对一组前地板进行了调查。自18世纪末以来，地板层一直在堆积。根据当地从母亲传给女儿的当地知识，最近制作的一层地面已经保养了近20年，每年四次，形成了最顶层。本文的主要目的是：（1）根据已知的方法检查和对比地板的形态特征，这将为考古实例提供有用的参考；（2）将观察/发现与地板形成过程的已知知识进行比较。保留在新近楼层之下的前几层的结构提供了几个世纪以来地板护理习惯如何变化，房屋不同部分的差异以及地板可能的堆积率的指示。这项研究表明，结合民族志学知识和宏观遗存分析对最近的楼层进行微观形态学研究是解释考古案例研究的一种有价值的方法论方法。