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ably well preserved and retain their original spatial mations, and historical dynamics. This raises wid-
relationships. er questions of epistemological accountability at a
In conclusion, field verification is not a mo- time when automated detection methods (e.g. deep
ment of ‘final truth’ but a phase that illuminates learning) are entering archaeological practice, of-
and reshapes interpretations. Its strength is cumu- ten omitting the reflexive dimension. As the Karst
lative: as more features are tested, an increasing- study demonstrates, archaeological knowledge
ly dense interpretative network emerges, stabiliz- does not arise linearly from detection, but from
ing explanations and allowing a shift from proving the interweaving of interpretative strands that in-
the existence of individual traces to understanding clude field interventions, analogy, and contextual
the landscape as a whole, its structures, transfor- embedding within the logic of the landscape.

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