Points of bone and antler from the Late Mesolithic settlement in Motala, eastern central Sweden

Abstract

Besonderer Dank gilt dem Vorstand des Zentrums für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie Schleswig, besonders dem Direktor, Claus von Carnap-Bornheim, und der Forschungsleiterin, Berit Valentin Eriksen, die die Veröffentlichung dieses Bandes durch die Bereitstellung der erforderlichen Mittel für den Druck der Arbeit maßgeblich unterstützten.

An integrated analysis of Maglemose bone points reframes the Early Mesolithic of Southern Scandinavia

“…Local bone point typo-chronologies have previously been proposed for two sites in Sweden, i.e. Rönneholms mosse 8 and Motala 13 . However, since the present study comprises material from a much wider geographical region, this fine-scale classification of the bone points might not be representative.…”

Using Radiocarbon Dates and Tool Design Principles to Assess the Role of Composite Slotted Bone Tool Technology at the Intersection of Adaptation and Culture-History

“…4 Calibrated radiocarbon date plots (normalized areas) of slotted point contexts and stray find slotted points in the study area ordered according to the longitudinal coordinate of the find location. Data from Apel et al (2017), Bergsvik & David (2015), Bjørnevad et al (2019), Brinch Petersen (2015, Edgren (1997), Eriksson et al (2003), Gummesson & Molin (2019), Gurina (1956, Hartz et al (2010), Ivanovaitė et al (2018), Jungklaus et al (2016), Jussila et al (2012, Kjällquist (2001), Kjällquist et al (2016), Larsson (2005), Miettinen et al (2008), Oshibkina (1989), Persson (2014), Philippsen et al (2019), Sjöström & Hammarstrand Dehman (2010), Skakun et al (2011), Sten et al (2000, Vang Petersen (2001), Zaretskaya et al (2005), and this study. See SI 2 for radiocarbon dates and coordinates use is now detected in the Eastern Baltic region and Belarus almost throughout the Early Holocene, ca.…”

“…Until recently, a very limited number of sites with more or less securely dated inset bone tool contexts has been reported from the vast area stretching from the Scandinavian Peninsula to the Moscow region in the east (Knutsson et al, 2016). However, with the addition of 13 slotted tools from Strandvägen and Kanaljorden sites in Motala, Sweden (Gummesson & Molin, 2019), as well as direct dates on the slotted points from Vaikantonys and Obšrūtai in Lithuania (Ivanovaitė et al, 2018), the slotted knife from Ulbi, Estonia (Bjørnevad et al, 2019) and a slotted point from an unknown location in the southeastern Baltic (Philippsen et al, 2019), the chronological position of inset bone tool technology in the area is becoming more robustly constrained, yet even this Fig. 1 a The Northern Hemisphere and the area discussed in the paper.…”

Bone Points in Time: Dating Hunter-Gatherer Bone Points in the Territory of Lithuania

“…Intensive studies reveal various aspects of prehistoric behavior, including the choices of raw materials, manufacturing techniques and the ways tools were used (e.g., David 2006;Bergsvik and David 2017;Orłowska and Osipowicz 2018). Organic implements can be directly dated by radiocarbon, providing precise dates for individual objects, and demonstrating continuity and transformations in tool-making traditions of particular implement types (Groß et al 2019;Gummesson and Molin 2019;Jensen et al 2020;Wild et al 2020;Orłowska and Osipowicz 2022). Not only osseous finds from settlement layers but also single (stray) finds can contribute relevant data on the hunter-gatherer osseous industry.…”