From entities to interaction. Replacing pots and people with networks of transmission

Source at https://www.sgr.fi/en/items/show/675.The understanding of the relationship between language, ethnic groups, and material culture in prehistory is still very limited, even within highly competent academic communities. To researchers without archaeological training it may be easy to make a direct association between archaeological cultures, distribution of signifi cant artefact types, and ethnic groups, especially as such explicit links are occasionally made also by archaeologists (e.g. Carpelan 2006). While there is undoubtedly some association between material culture and ethnicity (Damm 2010), and by inference perhaps also language, this is not straightforward, and is in many respects still poorly understood

Interaction Within and Between Collectives: Networking in Northern Fennoscandia

Source at https://www.sgr.fi/en/items/show/675.The project Early Networking in Northern Fennoscandia is concerned with investigating interaction at the regional and interregional levels. Through a number of separate case studies we look into the substance of the interaction, evaluate its extent and diversity, background and organization, and its wider effects. In my case study I approach interregional interaction by looking at networks and collective identities. The following focuses on the importance of collectives in interaction

A Neolithic Corridor between East and West.

Source at http://www.sarks.fi/masf/masf_10/masf_10.html.The discovery of an amber bead and an unusual type of slate knife at a site near Tromsø, Norway instigated reflection upon inter-regional mobility and possible travel routes in northern Fennoscandia. In combination with finds near Kilpisjärvi, Finland, these early Neolithic objects found far from their main distribution area allow us to suggest that the Torne River and its connected waterways provided a corridor for contact between the Atlantic coast and the Bothnian coast

Introduction

Source at https://www.sgr.fi/en/items/show/675.This volume is a collection of articles based on papers that were presented at the conference Networks, Interaction and Emerging Identities in Fennoscandia and Beyond, 13–16 October 2009. The conference was held at the University of Tromsø in Norway, and hosted by its Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education. The University of Tromsø was the obvious choice of venue due to its explicit research emphasis on northern regions and indigenous identities, as well as its location in an area where hunter-fisher-gatherer populations persisted well into the second millenium AD

Continuity and change : an analysis of social and material patterns in the Danish Neolithic

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Fiskesøkker og hverdagens magi i steinalderens kystlandskap

Kystlandskapet og dets ressurser har gjennom alle tider vært viktige for befolkningen i Nord-Norge. Det gjelder også for fangstfolk i periodene yngre steinalder (ca. 5000–1800 fvt.) og tidlig metalltid (1800–0 fvt.) som primært livnærte seg av fisk, sel og sjøfugl. Derfor er det litt av et paradoks at de avbildninger vi finner for eksempel i bergkunsten i utstrakt grad er av landpattedyr. Hvordan forholdt man seg til kystlandskapet, dets skapninger og krefter, og hvilket arkeologisk materiale har vi som kan belyse det? Det er få arkeologiske funn av fiskeredskaper, og vi må regne med at både fiskekroker, harpuner, nett og liknende ble fremstilt av organisk materiale som sjeldent er bevart. Men fiskesøkker av stein har vi funnet på mange boplasser og to av disse er utgangspunkt for denne artikkel

On the Condition of Dialogue between Sister Disciplines. Forty-four years after Marshall Sahlins' Stone Age Economics. Comments by Eszter Bánffy, Charlotte Damm, Clive Gamble and Enza E. Spinapolice

Source at http://dx.doi.org/10.1408/84148

Mesolithic Pyrotechnology: Practices and Perceptions in Early Holocene Coastal Norway

Substantial pyrotechnological structures and large quantities of charcoal are rarely found on Early Holocene sites in coastal Norway. Nevertheless, information on the use of fire and fuel types is available and presented in this article, a survey of sites dating from 10,000 to 8000 uncal BP. Possible fuel types and preferences are discussed and it is argued that most fires would have been small and short-lived, making extensive use of low vegetation. This suggests that food must have been largely consumed raw, fermented, or dried. The distinction between the use of shrubs and trees must have had implications for the perception of their properties, which appear to have persisted even after the emergence of more forested landscapes

A Neolithic Corridor between East and West.

The discovery of an amber bead and an unusual type of slate knife at a site near Tromsø, Norway instigated reflection upon inter-regional mobility and possible travel routes in northern Fennoscandia. In combination with finds near Kilpisjärvi, Finland, these early Neolithic objects found far from their main distribution area allow us to suggest that the Torne River and its connected waterways provided a corridor for contact between the Atlantic coast and the Bothnian coast

Downscaling Cosmological Landscapes: from Early to Mid-Holocene Rock Art in Northern Norway

The rock art of northern Norway is well-known, not least due to the UNESCO World Heritage sites at Alta dating back to c. 5200 cal BC. It is perhaps less well-known that northern Norway also has earlier rock art dating back to c. 9000 cal BC. While the early phase of rock art is dominated by large, natural sized animals such as elk, reindeer, bear and whale in a naturalistic style, the later period in addition to animals have many humans, boats and geometric motifs. Although varying in size, the individual motifs are typically small (10-20 cm), and although identifiable to species the style is more schematic. The rock art now includes narrative scenes and compositions which display communal activities involving groups of people interacting, e.g. hunting and ritual activities. In this paper we will explore how the panels and motifs in the early and late period respectively relate to the landscape, and argue that there is a downscaling not just in the size of the motifs but also in the perception of the landscape. This downscaling is associated with changes in settlement and mobility patterns, from an early highly mobile mode of habitation to a semi-sedentary mode with increased regionalization