Kystens steinalder i Aust-Agder

Viken, Synnøve; Darmark, Kim; Johannessen, Linnea Syversætre; Stokke, Jo-Simon Frøshaug; Mansrud, Anja; Eigeland, Lotte; McGraw, Jessica Leigh; Solberg, Annette; Romundset, Anders; Mjærum, Axel; Lønaas, Ole Christian

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“…One perspective might also follow from the fact that the shoreline emergence variables are based on a transformation from elevation to year of emergence, which means that they are not entirely divorced from the relief of the local landscape, or possibly bathymetry, depending on if the sites were strictly shore-bound or not. An implication of this finding could consequently be that the variation in the immediate proximity of the MM and LM sites is related to good fishing grounds (Darmark, Viken & Johannessen 2018). The relevance of the significantly stable wider catchments in the LM could then be that this stability reflects a more predictable pattern for the exploitation of flora and fauna.…”

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Algorithmic Classification and Statistical Modelling of Coastal Settlement Patterns in Mesolithic South-Eastern Norway

Roalkvam

2020

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology

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Algorithmic Classification and Statistical Modelling of Coastal Settlement Patterns in Mesolithic South-Eastern Norway

Roalkvam

2020

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology

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“…The preservation conditions were generally poor at the site explaining the lack of organic material and the state of the cultivation layer. A likely explanation for the age difference in the radiocarbon dates from the hearth is that the structure originally dates to the Early/Middle Neolithic and later use of the site have disturbed the context mixing cereals from the Late Neolithic cultivation layer into the fill and contaminating the feature (Reitan et al 2018). Accumulation of sediments above the hearth have provide relatively more favorable conditions for preservation of organic material compared to the cultivation layer and the rest of the site.…”

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“…5900-5200 cal BP). The only possible exceptions are cereal type pollen and pollen from grazing indicators such as ribwort plantain (Plantago Lanceolata) from bogs and lakes throughout southern Norway (e.g., Prøsch-Danielsen and Simonsen 2000;Wieckowska-Lüth et al 2017), as well as a couple of charred cereals dated to the transition to the Middle Neolithic period (Reitan et al 2018). While the presence of Early and Middle Neolithic farming in southern Norway is disputed there seems to be a consensus among researchers that farming became economically important in the Late Neolithic, from ca.…”

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Timing the Emergence and Development of Arable Farming in Southeastern Norway by Using Summed Probability Distribution of Radiocarbon Dates and a Bayesian Age Model

Solheim

2021

Radiocarbon

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The paper explores the emergence and development of arable farming in southeastern Norway by compiling and analyzing directly dated cereals from archaeological contexts. By using summed probability distributions of radiocarbon dates and Bayesian modeling, the paper presents the first comprehensive analysis of the directly dated evidence for farming in the region. The models provide a more precise temporal resolution to the development than hitherto presented. The results demonstrate that the introduction of arable farming to southeastern Norway was a long-term development including several steps. Three different stages are pointed out as important in the process of establishing arable farming: the Early and Middle Neolithic, the Late Neolithic, and the Early Iron Age.

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Enculturating Coastal Environments in the Middle Mesolithic (8300–6300 cal BCE) – Site Variability, Human–Environment Relations, and Mobility Patterns in Northern Vestfold, SE-Norway

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The coastal settlement in Middle Mesolithic (MM) Southeast Norway is generally described as a dynamic system of small, short-lived sites and large sites that were visited repeatedly over a long time. It has been suggested that in this period – compared to the preceding Early Mesolithic (EM) – an increased attraction towards the large archipelagos along the Norwegian coast, and their broad spectrum of both marine and terrestrial food sources, took place. This has, however, been debated. An important background for the discussion is the documented population influx and the abrupt shift in tool technology around 8300 cal BCE. The question remains whether this great social and technological upheaval was followed by a transformation or break in the environmental knowledge and changes in the ways of living, such as new human–environment relations, settlement systems, and mobility patterns. We propose that the continuous process of enculturation of the land and environment would have played a decisive role in the societal development. In this article, we therefore investigate details of site construction and mobility patterns, as well as the marking of the land by the establishment of settlement sites and exploitation of lithic raw materials on a larger scale. We concentrate our investigation on the on-site activity, site location, lithic raw material economy, and technological organisation, which brings renewed opportunities for discussing enculturation processes in the period. Our results document a diverse settlement pattern, as well as diachronic variation, suggesting an internal duality within the sociocultural development process in the area. The article presents the new results from the InterCity Vestfold project, situated by the Oslofjord west coast. Our data comprise a total of eight excavated and 69 surveyed sites from 4 municipalities. A strong isostatic land uplift caused continuous and rapid changes in the shoreline configuration and its nearby environments, in the Oslofjord area throughout the Mesolithic. To enable the discussion of human–environment relations, we therefore present a new relative sea level (RSL) curve, supplying detailed data on the shoreline development in the project area.

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Kystens steinalder i Aust-Agder

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Algorithmic Classification and Statistical Modelling of Coastal Settlement Patterns in Mesolithic South-Eastern Norway

Algorithmic Classification and Statistical Modelling of Coastal Settlement Patterns in Mesolithic South-Eastern Norway

Timing the Emergence and Development of Arable Farming in Southeastern Norway by Using Summed Probability Distribution of Radiocarbon Dates and a Bayesian Age Model

Enculturating Coastal Environments in the Middle Mesolithic (8300–6300 cal BCE) – Site Variability, Human–Environment Relations, and Mobility Patterns in Northern Vestfold, SE-Norway

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