GIS-technologies in investigation of the medieval urban household (on the materials from the Posolsky-2006 excavation area)

For a long time archaeological investigations of Medieval Russian towns with anaerobic cultural layers provided informational potential for complex research of medieval urban households. Yet such investigation is limited by traditional field method based on artificial horizontal layers and assumed constructive phases. That is why the main difficulty in complex research of medieval urban household is correlation between layers and phases in each archaeological trench. The paper presents some methods of obtaining such correlation with application of GIS-technologies tested during the excavations of Posolskij-2006. Spatial distribution of mass material gives a possibility to start collecting the data on specific traces of everyday life in medieval urban household. As a whole, using GIS-technologies for investigation of the medieval urban household has considerable research potential. Adaptation of methods of spatial analysis for different types of archaeological sites is highly necessary.