Traditional reindeer hunting and social change in the local communities surrounding Hardangervidda

Blehr, Otto

doi:10.1080/00293652.1973.9965191

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“…Three new bone samples from the stratigraphically oldest bone layers were dated for this study, also included in Table 2. However, it is likely that the mass hunt ended some 30 years before the Black Death epidemic of 1349/1350 as stated by Indrelid and Hufthammer, and not because of it as claimed by Blehr (1973Blehr ( , 2012. The model suggests that the hunt at Sumtangen started in the 12th century (between 1126 and 1177 AD, at the 68.2% probability level), and continued until the early 13th century (ending between 1293 and 1320 AD, at the 68.2% probability level).…”

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“…Thus, the time period for the mass hunt as proposed by Indrelid and Hufthammer (2011) is too short, as suggested by Blehr. However, it is likely that the mass hunt ended some 30 years before the Black Death epidemic of 1349/1350 as stated by Indrelid and Hufthammer, and not because of it as claimed by Blehr (1973Blehr ( , 2012.…”

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Heaps of fascinating fragments: reconstructing a medieval reindeer population based on bone middens from the Hardangervidda high mountain plateau, Norway

Beijersbergen

2016

Acta Zoologica

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Takken Beijersbergen, L.M. 2017. Heaps of fascinating fragments: reconstructing a medieval reindeer population based on bone middens from the Hardangervidda high mountain plateau, Norway. -Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 98: 340-361.The results of a detailed morphological and pathological study on reindeer bones (Rangifer tarandus) from four medieval hunting stations on Hardangervidda are presented. As intensive marrow collecting left almost no bones intact, traditional sexing methods could only sparsely be applied. Alternative methods had to be explored to successfully assign the fragments to a sex. Employing linear discriminant analysis (LDA) on early-and non-fusing skeletal elements, I have shown that (incomplete) calcanei, metapodia and phalanges I and II can be used successfully to assign a specimen to a sex and should no longer be excluded from osteometric analyses. Differences in the demographic compositions of the taphocoenoses lead to the assumption that hunters in the 11th century AD targeted large reindeer bucks, while at the 13th-century sites, the complete biocoenose is represented, albeit in a different ratio. There seems to have been a shift in hunting technique: from selective hunting to mass hunting. Size wise, the reindeer from Hardangervidda were smaller than reindeer from contemporary assemblages from the Dovre area (central Norway), a population that is genetically different. Few pathologically affected bones were encountered in the material, but some cases of infections, bone lesions and a progressed osteosarcoma are described. Liselotte M. Takken Beijersbergen, The Natural History Collections, University Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 98: 340-361 (October 2017) Takken Beijersbergen Heaps of fascinating fragments 1Not including cranium, vertebrae other than atlas and axis, carpalia, tarsalia other than astragalus and calcaneum, and third phalanges.

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Heaps of fascinating fragments: reconstructing a medieval reindeer population based on bone middens from the Hardangervidda high mountain plateau, Norway

Beijersbergen

2016

Acta Zoologica

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“…Another possibility is that the mobilization was based more directly on kinship relations so that the crew of the ships consisted of different action groups of close relatives (cf. Otto Blehr 1961and 1973, Knut Odner 1972. Mobilization systems like these may explain how it was possible to gather a large number of men at a few central places within the chief dom.…”

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Boathouses as indicators of political organization

Myhre¹

1985

Norwegian Archaeological Review

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“…Here I would especially mention the work of E. K. Barth, the zoologist, who has spent many years in Rondane (Barth 1977 and, 0. M0lmen's Jotunheimen-Dovre surveys (M0lmen 1975-78), and Blehr and Fasteland's investigations on the Hardangervidda mountain plateau (Blehr 1973, 1974, Fasteland 1974. Several archaeologists have dealt with structures employed in trapping in their work, apart from Johansen, this applies especially to A.…”

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Recent investigations of iron production in Viking Age Norway

Martens¹

1982

Norwegian Archaeological Review

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Traditional reindeer hunting and social change in the local communities surrounding Hardangervidda

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Heaps of fascinating fragments: reconstructing a medieval reindeer population based on bone middens from the Hardangervidda high mountain plateau, Norway

Heaps of fascinating fragments: reconstructing a medieval reindeer population based on bone middens from the Hardangervidda high mountain plateau, Norway

Boathouses as indicators of political organization

Recent investigations of iron production in Viking Age Norway

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