Frontlets from the south-east coast of the Baltic Sea? Seal craniums from Šventoji: A unique clue to understanding the symbolic culture of European middle Holocene hunter-gatherers

Osipowicz, Grzegorz; Orłowska, Justyna; Piličiauskienė, Giedrė; Piličiauskas, Gytis

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102638

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“…Undoubtedly, we tend to attribute the function of a tool to analysed historical objects too soon and too automatically, forgetting that marks they bear might originate from nonhousehold usage. This has been recently showed in the article on craniums from Šventoji (Osipowicz et al, 2020a) referred to in the introduction, which seems to be also confirmed by the bacula analysed in this study.…”

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“…Nepaisant to, šie iš ruonių kaulų pagaminti dirbinai dar kartą patvirtino hipotezę, kad ruoniai ir iš jų gaunamos žaliavos buvo itin svarbios Baltijos subneolito bendruomenėms. Be to, šių radinių tyrimai, kaip ir ruonių kaukolių tyrimai (Osipowicz et al, 2020a), dar kartą parodė, kad negalima skubėti dirbiniams priskirti vieną ar kitą funkciją, o žymės ant tiriamų objektų gali būti visai nesusijusios su kasdienėmis įprastomis ūkinėmis veiklomis.…”

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Towards an Understanding the Role of Seals in the Subneolithic Communities of the South-East Coast of the Baltic Sea. The Bacula from Šventoji 3 Site

Osipowicz

2020

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The article presents the results of traceological studies of two harp seal bacula, from the Šventoji 3 site (coastal Lithuania). As a result of the microscopic observations carried out, technological and functional microtraces were discovered on both artefacts. The analysis of the use-wear traces, which are better readable only on one of the artefacts, allowed for a hypothesis that they arose as a result of contact with well-tanned and dry hide. This made it possible to assign to the studied artefacts the function of objects of everyday use, having direct contact with this material. The findings were illustrated with the current knowledge on the use of bacula in prehistory, historical times and among archaic communities known from ethnographic observations.

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Towards an Understanding the Role of Seals in the Subneolithic Communities of the South-East Coast of the Baltic Sea. The Bacula from Šventoji 3 Site

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2020

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Animist Ontologies in the Third Millennium BCE? Hunter-Gatherer Persistency and Human–Animal Relations in Southern Norway: The Alveberget Case

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2021

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This article aims to contribute novel data and perspectives into the long-standing debate about economic strategies in the fourth and third millennium in South Norway, by introducing novel results from a Pitted Ware coastal site in Agder County, southern Norway. The analysis of artifactual and faunal assemblages as well as lipid analysis from ceramics indicate a varied subsistence economy with terrestrial hunting, gathering, and specialized marine fishing strategies, targeting Atlantic bluefin tuna and seals. These procurement strategies were maintained throughout the middle and into the late Neolithic period (c. 3300–2200 BCE). No unequivocal evidence of cultivation was documented before the early Bronze Age, around 1700 BCE. This article maintains that exploring and explaining long-time continuity, and the environmental, cultural, and social mechanisms, which underwrite enduring traditions, remains a pertinent issue in Neolithic archeology. To broaden our understanding of the causes underlying cultural persistence, we need to move beyond a view of foraging peoples as either ecologically adapted or as economically optimized and employ a perspective that acknowledges the fundamental importance of human–animal relations in prehistoric lives and worldviews. Drawing on insights from relational anthropology and multi-species archaeology, we maintain that an animist ontology endured among the Pitted Ware groups and endorsed the foraging persistency characterizing the third millennium in Southern Norway.

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Frontlets from the south-east coast of the Baltic Sea? Seal craniums from Šventoji: A unique clue to understanding the symbolic culture of European middle Holocene hunter-gatherers

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Towards an Understanding the Role of Seals in the Subneolithic Communities of the South-East Coast of the Baltic Sea. The Bacula from Šventoji 3 Site

Towards an Understanding the Role of Seals in the Subneolithic Communities of the South-East Coast of the Baltic Sea. The Bacula from Šventoji 3 Site

Animist Ontologies in the Third Millennium BCE? Hunter-Gatherer Persistency and Human–Animal Relations in Southern Norway: The Alveberget Case

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