The layout and development of field systems may reflect significant aspects of prehistoric societies such as agricultural strategies, use rights and inheritance practices. This article presents a method for analysing the developments of field systems in their entirety, based on a hierarchical sorting of field boundaries whose intersections have been used to define relations of equivalence and subordination. The formalized relational expression of the field system is analysed using a stochastic optimization algorithm. The method was successfully applied to three Danish Celtic fields from the Late Bronze/Early Iron Age, making it possible to identify five principles behind the layout: primary boundaries (probably established at community level), major parcels (administered at a household level), structured subdivisions (presumably related to inheritance), irregular subdivisions, and small-scale expansions of the field systems. The initial degree of regularity of the field systems seems to have influenced later modifications.

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凯尔特人领域的布局和内部发展：三个丹麦领域系统的结构和相对时间分析

田间系统的布局和发展可能反映了史前社会的重要方面，例如农业战略、使用权和继承实践。本文提出了一种分析整个领域系统发展的方法，该方法基于对领域边界的分层排序，其交叉点已用于定义等价和从属关系。使用随机优化算法分析现场系统的形式化关系表达式。该方法成功地应用于青铜时代晚期/铁器时代早期的三个丹麦凯尔特人领域，从而可以确定布局背后的五个原则：主要边界（可能在社区层面建立）、主要地块（在家庭层面管理）、结构化细分（可能与继承有关）、不规则细分和字段系统的小规模扩展。场系统最初的规律性似乎影响了后来的修改。