Identifying commoners in the Early Bronze Age:

Bergerbrant, Sophie; Kristiansen, Kristian; Allentoft, Morten E.; Frei, Karin Margarita; Price, T. Douglas; Sjögren, Karl-Göran; Tornberg, Anna

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“…Further supporting the postulates of the New Mobilities Paradigm (Shellar and Urry 2006;Urry 2007), strontium isotope analysis conducted thus far on Southern Scandinavian human remains suggest that both enacting mobility (Bergerbrant et al 2017;Felding et al 2020;Frei et al 2019;Frei et al 2015a;Frei et al 2015b;Frei et al 2017b) and causing mobility to be enacted by others was present during…”

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“…The frequent, sometimes long-distance movements of objects, materials and ideas during this time are evident in the archaeological record (Earle 2002;Earle and Kristiansen 2010;Frei et al 2017a;Jockenhövel 1980Jockenhövel , 1991Jockenhövel , 1995Jockenhövel and Kurbach 1994;Kristiansen 1998Kristiansen , 2017Kristiansen et al 2017;Kristiansen and Suchowska-Ducke 2015;Ling et al 2012Ling et al , 2014Ling et al , 2019Ling et al 2018;Melheim et al 2018;Treherne 1995;Wels-Weyrauch 1989b, 1989a. Although it is clear that objects, materials and ideas are unlikely to have been made mobile in the Bronze Age without human intervention (Bergerbrant 2007), the many recent archaeometric analyses of human remains from this time add a new dimension to the extant material data (Bergerbrant et al 2017;Cavazzutti et al 2019a;Cavazzutti et al 2019b;Felding et al 2020;Frei et al 2022;Frei et al 2017b;Knipper et al 2017;Mittnik et al 2019;Nielsen et al 2020;Oelze et al 2011;Reiter and Frei 2015;Taylor et al 2020).…”

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Tales from Ginderup Mound in Thisted County, Denmark

Reiter

Møller²,

Jørkov

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The preservation of organic and human remains in Early Nordic Bronze Age mounds (1700 BCE -1100 BCE) permits new provenance work on this important period. Studies have shown that different mobility/non-mobility patterns were exercised by elite women during this time. To extend the database, we conducted strontium isotope analyses of the enamel from the second and third molars from the elite female grave from Ginderup in Thisted County, Denmark. Among other items, this grave included the textile remains of a possible corded skirt or fringed blanket. We complemented analyses of this woman’s enamel with strontium isotope analyses of the first molar from Grave B as well as osteological analysis of the individuals from Early Nordic Bronze Age Graves A, B and C. Our results revealed that the strontium isotope ratios obtained from the woman wearing a possible corded skirt yielded one local ratio (M2) and one non-local ratio (M3). The results from Grave B yielded a ratio which falls within the local baseline of present-day Denmark. Our results suggest that the Ginderup Woman was probably of local origin, but that she also was repeatedly mobile during her life. These data are further evidence for the Nordic Bronze Age’s complex socio-dynamics.

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Tales from Ginderup Mound in Thisted County, Denmark

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Møller²,

Jørkov

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“…Society is now firmly ranked, with a chiefly elite of free landowners making up 20 percent of the population, buried in elaborate barrows. Nonelites (commoners, and perhaps the unfree) were buried outside barrows in poor flat graves (Bergerbrant et al 2017). Clearly, the kinship system had become more elaborate and open to adapt to this new reality, which included the institution of guest friendship, crucial for alliances (Kaul 2022).…”

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Archaeology and the Genetic Revolution in European Prehistory

Kristiansen

2022

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This Element was written to meet the theoretical and methodological challenge raised by the third science revolution and its implications for how to study and interpret European prehistory. The first section is therefore devoted to a historical and theoretical discussion of how to practice interdisciplinarity in this new age, and following from that, how to define some crucial, but undertheorized categories, such as culture, ethnicity and various forms of migration. The author thus integrates the new results from archaeogenetics into an archaeological frame of reference, to produce a new and theoretically informed historical narrative, one that also invites debate, but also one that identifies areas of uncertainty, where more research is needed.

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“…The best known region of the Scandinavian Bronze Age (BA) is the central area encompassing Denmark, southern Sweden, and southern Norway. In this area, BA burial customs ranged from large elite burial mounds and gallery graves to cairns and flat ground cemeteries (Bergerbrant et al, 2017; Ojala, 2016; Röst, 2016; Tornberg, 2016; Victor, 2002, p. 48). In Finland, the situation appears quite different, with cairns being currently the only known BA (ca.…”

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Graves, landmarks, or sacrificial monuments? The human osteology and paleopathology of the Bronze Age burial cairns in Finland

Salo

Saipio

Hentunen

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Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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During the Bronze Age (BA; ca. 1800-500 BC), cremation became the dominant burial practice in Finland. These BA cremations have been excavated from burial cairns in Finland for more than 150 years. This work provides new information on human osteology from this previously understudied area in northeastern Europe. The results cover the earliest period in Finnish prehistory for which large-scale human osteological assemblages are available. In this article, we present a comprehensive human osteological study on the curated bone collections of the National Museum of Finland and other provincial museums and provide new radiocarbon datings of the cairns. The results show that the cairns were most often used for single burials, without accompanying animals or artifacts. Double and multiple burials became more common in the Iron Age. Porotic hyperostosis was a common finding. Signs of osteoarthritis are more common in the central Satakunta region, where Iron Age burial practices first emerged already during the Late BA. These observed changes can be connected to changes in subsistence strategies that also enabled permanent settlements.

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Identifying commoners in the Early Bronze Age:

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Tales from Ginderup Mound in Thisted County, Denmark

Tales from Ginderup Mound in Thisted County, Denmark

Archaeology and the Genetic Revolution in European Prehistory

Graves, landmarks, or sacrificial monuments? The human osteology and paleopathology of the Bronze Age burial cairns in Finland

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