Seals, Seal Hunting and Worked Seal Bones in the Estonian Coastal Region in the Neolithic and Bronze Age

Luik, Heidi

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“…4: 4). The wedge-shaped end of the object is similar to the hoe or ard points known from the Late Bronze Age settlements in Latvia and Estonia (Luik & Lang, 2013), but the other end, with traces of processing, would be too narrow to make such an object. One of the mentioned handles is probably also an unfinished object (Fig.…”

Section: Antler Artefacts and Working Wastementioning

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Animal Bones, Bone Artefacts and Bone Working at Late Bronze Age Fortified Settlements in North-Eastern Lithuania: Sokiškiai, Mineikiškės and Garniai I

Luik

Piličiauskienė

Podėnas

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The article discusses artefacts made of osseous materials found in the Late Bronze Age fortified settlement sites in north-eastern Lithuania. Earlier, Bronze Age bone items from three Lithuanian sites – Narkūnai, Nevieriškė and Kereliai – have been analysed more thoroughly. Of sites discussed here, Sokiškiai has been archaeologically investigated in the beginning of the 1980-ies. In recent years, research has been carried out on the fortified settlements of Mineikiškės and Garniai I. 14C AMS dates have been used to date new sites as well as to specify the dates of previously studied settlements. During this research, approximately half a hundred bone, antler and tooth objects were examined, and the material used to make them was determined, if possible up to the species and skeletal part. Among the materials used, bone predominated, antler was used less, and teeth were used in only a few cases. An overview is given of the common types of bone objects, the processing techniques used to make them and the uses of the objects. The majority of tools are chisels and scrapers, and awls and points, many of which could have been used as leather working tools. The third major group of finds is bone pins, which testify to the clothing fashion that needed pins for attachment. Comparing the finds of Late Bronze Age fortified settlements in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Byelorussia, greater similarity can be observed in certain types of bone artefacts in south-eastern Latvia, north-western Byelorussia, and north-eastern Lithuania.

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Section: Antler Artefacts and Working Wastementioning

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“…In Asva and Ķivutkalns, as well as in some other settlements in Estonia and Latvia, antler hoe or ard points have been found, which are not represented among the finds of the sites discussed here (Graudonis, 1989, pl. XIIa, XLII: 12;Luik & Lang, 2011;Luik, 2013, p. 393, fig. 7;Sperling et al, 2015, p. 59, fig.…”

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Animal Bones, Bone Artefacts and Bone Working at Late Bronze Age Fortified Settlements in North-Eastern Lithuania: Sokiškiai, Mineikiškės and Garniai I

Luik

Piličiauskienė

Podėnas

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“…Toggle harpoons are known from Neolithic and Bronze Age coastal sites in the eastern Baltic region; however, they all differ, as none are of the socketed type (e.g. Rimantienė 1979;2005;Zagorska 2000;Luik et al 2011;Luik 2013).…”

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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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“…An amber figurine from the double grave at Valma in Estonia possibly depicts a seal, although it has also been identified as a wild boar or a beaver (Ots 2010, 14–5, fig. 2, cited in Luik 2013, 83), and a zoomorphic pendant from a male grave at Tamula resembles a boar (Iršėnas 2010, 184, fig. 6/5).…”

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‘Come and Give my Child Wit’. Animal Remains, Artefacts, and Humans in Mesolithic and Neolithic Hunter-gatherer Graves of Northern Europe

Pasarić¹

2023

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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Unmodified and modified animal remains and animal representations significantly contribute to the content of Mesolithic and, in some cases, Early Neolithic hunter-gatherer burial assemblages in Northern Europe. Though these finds have received noteworthy attention, predominant archaeological narratives focus on their economic, aesthetic, or symbolic values in relation to humans. This contribution explores ways of looking at these assemblages beyond seeing them primarily as signifiers of human identities and human symbolic and/or economic choices. Drawing on insights from Russian ethnographic literature about near-recent East Siberian hunting and gathering communities, this paper explores paths for understanding unmodified and modified animal remains and animal representations from Mesolithic and Neolithic hunter-gatherer graves as animate objects and investigates ways of recognising their personhood. The paper outlines what could be considered as the material consequences of communicative actions and performative acts in relation to artefacts and animal remains that might have been perceived as having the qualities of a person, such as their placement and arrangement within the burial and treatment prior to deposition.

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Seals, Seal Hunting and Worked Seal Bones in the Estonian Coastal Region in the Neolithic and Bronze Age

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Animal Bones, Bone Artefacts and Bone Working at Late Bronze Age Fortified Settlements in North-Eastern Lithuania: Sokiškiai, Mineikiškės and Garniai I

Animal Bones, Bone Artefacts and Bone Working at Late Bronze Age Fortified Settlements in North-Eastern Lithuania: Sokiškiai, Mineikiškės and Garniai I

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

‘Come and Give my Child Wit’. Animal Remains, Artefacts, and Humans in Mesolithic and Neolithic Hunter-gatherer Graves of Northern Europe

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Seals, Seal Hunting and Worked Seal Bones in the Estonian Coastal Region in the Neolithic and Bronze Age

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Animal Bones, Bone Artefacts and Bone Working at Late Bronze Age Fortified Settlements in North-Eastern Lithuania: Sokiškiai, Mineikiškės and Garniai I

Animal Bones, Bone Artefacts and Bone Working at Late Bronze Age Fortified Settlements in North-Eastern Lithuania: Sokiškiai, Mineikiškės and Garniai I

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

‘Come and Give my Child Wit’. Animal Remains, Artefacts, and Humans in Mesolithic and Neolithic Hunter-gatherer Graves of Northern Europe

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