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- Cassen, Serge, et al.
(författare)
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Real and ideal European maritime transfers along the Atlantic coast during the Neolithic
- 2019
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Ingår i: Documenta Praehistorica. - : University of Ljubljana. - 1408-967X .- 1854-2492. ; XLVI, s. 308-325
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The history of research on the Neolithic of the Atlantic façade shows how speculation about prehistoric mobility, especially across the sea, is mainly based on three types of archaeological evidence: megalithic monuments, rare stones, and pottery decoration. With the aim of approaching the issue from other perspectives, we have focused on the Morbihan area, a focal point of the European Neolithic during the mid-5th millennium BC. The analysis of this area has allowed us to grasp which objects, ideas and beliefs may have been desired, adopted and imitated at the time. We shall begin with an architectural concept, the standing stone. These were sometimes engraved with signs that can be directly compared between Brittany, Galicia (NW Spain) and Portugal, but for which there are no intermediate parallels in other areas of the French or Spanish coast. The unique accumulation and transformation of polished blades made of Alpine rocks and found inside tombs or in other sort of depositions in the Carnac region allowed us to establish a second link with Galicia and the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula, where certain types of the axes were imitated using a set of different rocks (sillimanite, amphibolite). Finally, the variscites and turquoises from different Spanish regions were used for the manufacture of beads and pendants at the Carnacean tombs, without it being possible – once again – to retrieve similar objects in the intermediate areas. The mastery of direct Atlantic sea routes is posed as an explanation for this geographical distribution. But, beyond the information drawn from specific artefacts – whose presence/absence should not be used in excess as an argument to endorse or underrate such movements across the ocean – we will return to a more poetic and universal phenomenon: the spell of the sea. Therefore, we will focus on the depictions of boats on the stelae of Morbihan to open such a debate.,
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- Fahlander, Fredrik, 1965-
(författare)
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Messing with the Dead. Post-depositional Manipulations of Burials and Bodies in the South Scandinavian Stone Age
- 2010
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Ingår i: Documenta Praehistorica. - : University of Ljubljana. - 1408-967X .- 1854-2492. ; 39, s. 22-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper concerns post-depositional manipulations of burials at two Stone Age sites in Southern Sweden: the Late Mesolithic Skateholm and Middle Neolithic Ajvide. A distinction is made between non-aggressive and aggressive manipulations of graves and dead bodies. Fine-grained hori- zontal stratigraphies make it possible to associate each category with different phases of occupation. It is suggested that aggressive manipulations are generally the result of social stress during periods of hybridisation between different groups and traditions.
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- Knutsson, Kjel, et al.
(författare)
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Stone Age Transitions : Neolithzation in central Scandinavia
- 2003
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Ingår i: Documenta Praehistorica. - 1408-967X. ; XXX, s. 49-78
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Forskningsöversikt (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- The paper is a summary of the Uppsala part of a series of individual research projects in connection with a joint research program, “Coast to Coast - Stone Age Societies in change”, carried out as collaboration between the Departments of archaeology in Uppsala, Göteborg, Lund and Stockholm. It covers the cultural development in Central Scandinavia in the early part of the Holocene, from the deglaciation (8000 cal BC) to the Late Neolithic (1800 cal BC). The historical substrate, the socio/spatial structures of hunter gatherer groups in the area, decisive for the character of the neolithization is discussed in terms of marriage networks between different exogamous bands and the development of a lineage-based society. Other themes taken up in the project is changes in relation to hunter gatherer social ideologies, the importance of history in cultural reproduction and change, the reuse of the past, social tensions and gender structures as expressed in the built environment, material culture as vehicles for power struggles and craft specialization in stratified societies. The paper ends with a critical evaluation of archaeology. The search for origins lures us to see what needs to be seen in prehistory. It is stated that the past has always been returned to and made active in socio-political processes; the modern world we live in is no exception.
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- Larsson, Lars
(författare)
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The past in the past in the mortuary practice of hunter-gatherers : An example from a settlement and cemetery site in northern Latvia
- 2017
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Ingår i: Documenta Praehistorica. - : University of Ljubljana. - 1408-967X .- 1854-2492. ; 44, s. 338-345
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During excavations of burials at Zvejnieki in northern Latvia, it transpired that the grave fill included occupation material brought to the grave. It contained tools of a type that could not be contemporaneous with the grave. This is confirmed by the dating of bone tools and other bone finds in the fill. The fill was taken from an older settlement site a short distance away. The fill also included skeletal parts of humans whose graves had been destroyed with the digging of the grave for a double burial. This provides an interesting view of the mortuary practice of hunter-gatherers and an insight into the use of the past in the past.
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- Lillie, Malcolm, 1963-, et al.
(författare)
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First isotope analysis and new radiocarbon dating of Trypillia (Tripolye) farmers from Verteba Cave, Biche Zolote, Ukraine
- 2017
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Ingår i: Documenta Praehistorica. - : Ljubljana University Press. - 1408-967X .- 1854-2492. ; 44, s. 306-324
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents an analysis of human and animal remains from Verteba cave,near Bilche Zolote, western Ukraine. This study was prompted by a paucity of direct dates on thismaterial and the need to contextualise these remains in relation both to the transition from hunt-ing and gathering to farming in Ukraine, and their specific place within the Cucuteni-Trypillia cul-ture sequence. The new absolute dating places the remains studied here in Trypillia stages BII/CIat c. 3900–3500 cal BC, with one individual now redated to the Early Scythian period. As such,these finds are even more exceptional than previously assumed, being some of the earliest dis-covered for this culture. The isotope analyses indicate that these individuals are local to the region,with the dietary stable isotopes indicating a C3terrestrial diet for the Trypillia-period humansanalysed. The Scythian period individual has δ13C ratios indicative of either c. 50% marine, or alter-natively C4plant inputs into the diet, despite δ18O and 87Sr/86Sr ratios that are comparable to the otherindividuals studied.
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- Martinsson-Wallin, Helene, 1959-, et al.
(författare)
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The story of the only (?) megalith grave on Gotland Island
- 2010
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Ingår i: Documenta Praehistorica. - Lubljana : Univerza v Ljubljani. - 1408-967X. ; 37, s. 77-84
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this paper, we discuss the easternmost material expression of the Funnel Beaker Culture – a megalith grave on the west coast of Gotland Island in the Baltic Sea. The people who built and used the megalith brought the Neolithic lifestyle to Gotland. The biography of this monument includes two excavations, of which we participated in the latest in 1984. Our osteological analysis confirms that some thirty individuals of both sexes and various ages were buried there. The structure of the monument is that of a rectangular dolmen. This paper discusses the discovery of this specific site, and explores the existence of this type of monument in a Gotland context. Furthermore, is this really the only megalith on Gotland, or are more of these structures yet to be recognised? Finally, one may ask if the Neolithic way of life really was successful on Gotland.
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- Nilsson Stutz, Liv, 1972-
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The way we bury our dead : Reflections on mortuary ritual, community and identity at the time of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition
- 2010. - 1
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Ingår i: Documenta Praehistorica. - Lubljana : Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts. - 1408-967X .- 1854-2492. ; 37, s. 33-42
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper discusses how archaeologists can approach ways in which the ritual treatment of the dead body was a means of reproducing a sense of identity and community in the past. The approach combines a theoretical framework grounded in practice and body theory with a methodological approach based on taphonomic analysis. This framework is introduced to analyze the mortuary practices at the Mesolithic cemeteries of Skateholm I and II, Vedbæk, Bøgebakken and Zvejnieki. Beyond the immediate context, the study seeks to reflect on how similarities and differences noticeable over time and space may provide an insight into changing identity processes.
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- Palmgren, Erik, et al.
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Analysis of late mid-Neolithic pottery illuminates the presenceof a Corded Ware Culture on the Baltic Island of Gotland
- 2015
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Ingår i: Documenta Praehistoria. - Ljubljana : Ljubljana University Press. - 1854-2492 .- 1408-967X. ; 42, s. 297-310
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we discuss variations seen in the ornamentation and modes of manufacturingpottery from the end of the mid-Neolithic 4600–4300 BP on the Island of Gotland in theBaltic Sea. The Pitted Ware cultural groups have been discussed as a western influence from the Swedishmainland, but the aDNA on skeletal remains point to eastern influences. We analyse and discusspottery from the well-investigated Ajvide Pitted Ware site and what these variations mean interm of intra- and inter-island relationships, ethnicity and change, and we suggest the developmentof what could be described as a hybrid culture.
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- Wallin, Paul, 1961-
(författare)
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In search of rituals and group dynamics : correspondence analyses of Neolithic grave fields on the Island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea
- 2010
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Ingår i: Documenta Praehistorica. - Lubljana : Univerza v Ljubljani. - 1408-967X. ; 37, s. 65-75
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this paper, I analyze two Neolithic grave fields on Gotland (at Visby and Västerbjers) belonging to the Scandinavian Pitted Ware culture. The burials at the two sites are of males and females from all different age groups. They were buried with some variability concerning grave rituals and grave gifts. The aim of this paper is therefore to make a relational multi-varied Correspondence Analysis of the individuals and their artefact variations to enable new contextual interpretations.
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