Accessing Waterbirds: A perspective into zooarchaeological assemblages and tax records in castles Kastelholm and Raseborg in the northern Baltic Sea

Kivikero, Hanna

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.11.023

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“…The landscape was modified and especially the area at the shore closest to the castle. The castle lost its administrative functions in the 1630's and by 1747 the castle had been abandoned and became a ruin (Palamarz 2004;Kivikero 2020). Over the years many noblemen and their bailiffs held the castle, both Swedish and Danish.…”

Section: Site Description and Archaeological Samplesmentioning

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Ancient Sheep Genomes reveal four Millennia of North European Short-Tailed Sheep in the Baltic Sea region

Larsson

Miranda

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Sheep are among the earliest domesticated livestock species, with a wide variety of breeds present today. However, it remains unclear how far back this breed diversity goes, with formal documentation only dating back a few centuries. North European short tail breeds are often assumed to be among the oldest domestic sheep populations, even thought to represent relicts of the earliest sheep expansions during the Neolithic period reaching Scandinavia less than 6000 years ago. This study sequenced the genomes (up to 11.6X) of five sheep remains from the Baltic islands of Gotland and Åland, dating from Late Neolithic (~4100 calBP) to historical times (~1600 CE). Our findings indicate that these ancient sheep already possessed the genetic characteristics of modern North European short tail breeds, suggesting a long-term continuity of this breed type in the Baltic Sea region. Despite the wide temporal spread, population genetic analyses show high levels of affinity between the ancient genomes and they exhibit higher genetic diversity compared to modern breeds, implying a loss of diversity in recent centuries associated with breed formation. Finally, we see a potential signature of an even earlier, genetically different form of sheep in Scandinavia as these samples do not represent the first sheep in Northern Europe. Our results shed light on the development of breeds in Northern Europe specifically and the development of genetic diversity in sheep breeds and their expansion from the domestication center in general.

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“…Over the years many noblemen and their bailiffs held the castle, both Swedish and Danish. Sheep meat, wool and other products were collected as tax from the archipelago and the castle also had a landed estate nearby with its own husbandry, farming and fishing (Kivikero 2020).…”

Section: Site Description and Archaeological Samplesmentioning

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Ancient Sheep Genomes reveal four Millennia of North European Short-Tailed Sheep in the Baltic Sea region

Larsson

Miranda

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“…The castle of Stockholm received most goods as they were needed for the upkeep of the King and the court as well as the vast number of other castle residents (e.g. Hammarström, 1956: 85–91; Kivikero, 2019). As more fish products were exported from Kastelholm and the associated landed estates to Stockholm, fish arguably had a greater impact on the economy of Kastelholm than on that of Raseborg.…”

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“…The fish bones in both castle sites come from waste deposits where mammal and bird bone assemblages point to food waste (Kivikero, 2017, 2019). In this context, the dominance of cranial elements could be the result of only heads being left on the fish when processing them (as Jonsson, 1986 suggests for pike).…”

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Fish on the Move: Transporting and Processing Fish as Part of the Castle Economy in the Northern Baltic Sea

Kivikero

2019

Eur. j. archaeol

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The importance of fish for the medieval and early modern economy in the Baltic Sea is known through separate studies by historians and archaeologists. This article aims to combine zooarchaeological data with account books from castles in Kastelholm (Åland Islands) and Raseborg (south-western coast of Finland) in order to understand the processing and transport of fish in the area. Fish was paid as tax by the peasants but was also fished by the castle fishermen and brought to the castles to be consumed there. Here, the preserved fish products are primarily studied through pike and cod, which represent the main economically important larger fish species in the Baltic Sea. The study reveals some differences between the castles studied and the importance of fish for the castle economy.

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“…The two data sets provide different possibilities and complement each other (e.g. Kivikero, 2017Kivikero, , 2019a. This was done by studying zooarchaeological assemblages from four different types of medieval and early modern sites and the Kastelholm Castle account books from the mid-16th century and tax records for Åland.…”

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Accessing Waterbirds: A perspective into zooarchaeological assemblages and tax records in castles Kastelholm and Raseborg in the northern Baltic Sea

Cited by 5 publications

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Ancient Sheep Genomes reveal four Millennia of North European Short-Tailed Sheep in the Baltic Sea region

Ancient Sheep Genomes reveal four Millennia of North European Short-Tailed Sheep in the Baltic Sea region

Fish on the Move: Transporting and Processing Fish as Part of the Castle Economy in the Northern Baltic Sea

Sealing economy: Exploring seals as resources in the Åland islands ca. 1100-1700 CE through zooarchaeology and account books

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