Petrified animals: fossil beads from a Neolithic hunter-gatherer double burial at Zvejnieki in Latvia

Macāne, Aija

doi:10.15184/aqy.2020.124

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“…As previous research as suggested (Conneller 2011;Macāne 2020), such curiosities would also have caught the eye of the prehistoric peoples, and consequently, been considered as something special. In the context of Mesolithic-Neolithic Baltic Sea region, this interpretation is supported further by the discovery of fossils in human burials (Macāne 2020 with references).…”

Section: Aholamentioning

confidence: 78%

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2023

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The interplay of environment, social relations, material culture, population dynamics, and human perception are the key factors of socio-environmental changes. The exploration of processes and parameters of societal change enable further exploration of transformations of human-environmental interactions. These processes and parameters are detectable in the development of, for example, settlement systems, material culture, or ritual sites, which link different socio-environmental components. Humans and environments deeply shaped each other, creating diverse social, environmental, and cultural constellations. On the one hand, examining the roots of social, environmental, and cultural phenomena and processes, which substantially marked past human development, can lead to a deeper understanding of the development of societies. On the other hand, a focus on transformation patterns within momentous developments of past societies opens up the possibility of identifying substantial and enduring re-organisation of socio-environmental interaction patterns.

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“…Its sample was dated to 2911-2703 cal BC. Comparable examples from other hunter-gatherer sites suggest that a half-split tusk like this could have served as a preform for a pendant (Kashina & Macāne 2020;Macāne 2022) or another functional tool.…”

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Socketed antler toggle harpoon head – a unique huntergatherer fishing implement in western Lithuania’s freshwater lake environment

Butrimas,

Rimkus,

Iršėnas

et al. 2024

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Daktariškė 5 is a huntergatherer site with organic preservation in western Lithuania. It is located on a former island of Lake Biržulis, where most finds were obtained in the lacustrine environment. The excavations revealed various osseous tools, such as axes and adzes, projectile points, barbed points, gouges and chisels, dating from the 6th to the 3rd millennium cal BC. Despite the abundance of finds in the vicinity of Lake Biržulis, including those at the Daktariškė 5 site, many remain unexplored in terms of presenting their typological diversity, technology and direct AMS 14 C dating. In this paper, we focus on a single case and present a study of a fully preserved socketed toggle harpoon head manufactured from antler. We provide the latest data on its technological assessments, direct AMS 14 C dating, species identification by ZooMS, and archaeological and ethnographic parallels. The latter suggest that such type of implement in northern latitudes was designed for hunting large aquatic mammals. Archaeozoological evidence of large freshwater fish, beavers and otters from Lake Biržulis suggests that this tool could have been adapted to the local environment. Consequently, we discuss the origin and possible use of the toggle harpoon head in the Lake Biržulis environment. K E Y W O R D Stoggle harpoon head, antler technology, AMS 14 C dating, ZooMS analysis, Lake Biržulis.

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Clamber of the dead: material ontology and cosmological affect within the hunter-gatherer mortuary traditions of the Eastern Baltic 4000-3000 cal. BC

2020

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Petrified animals: fossil beads from a Neolithic hunter-gatherer double burial at Zvejnieki in Latvia

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Socketed antler toggle harpoon head – a unique huntergatherer fishing implement in western Lithuania’s freshwater lake environment

Clamber of the dead: material ontology and cosmological affect within the hunter-gatherer mortuary traditions of the Eastern Baltic 4000-3000 cal. BC

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Petrified animals: fossil beads from a Neolithic hunter-gatherer double burial at Zvejnieki in Latvia

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Socketed antler toggle harpoon head – a unique hunter­gatherer fishing implement in western Lithuania’s freshwater lake environment

Clamber of the dead: material ontology and cosmological affect within the hunter-gatherer mortuary traditions of the Eastern Baltic 4000-3000 cal. BC

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Socketed antler toggle harpoon head – a unique huntergatherer fishing implement in western Lithuania’s freshwater lake environment