New evidence of possible crop introduction to north-eastern Europe during the Stone Age

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anneli Poska ◽  
Leili Saarse
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
New Evidence

Copper Use, Cultural Change and Neolithization in North-Eastern Europe (c. 5500–1800 BC)

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerkko Nordqvist ◽  
Vesa-Pekka Herva
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Material World ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
The Republic

In the context of northern Europe, copper use started early in eastern Fennoscandia (Finland and the Republic of Karelia, Russia), sometime after 4000 BC. This article explores this Stone Age copper use in eastern Fennoscandia in relation to broader cultural developments in the region between the adoption of pottery (c. 5500 BC) and the end of the Stone Age (c. 1800 BC). Stone Age copper use in north-eastern Europe has conventionally been understood in terms of technology or exchange, whereas this article suggests that the beginning of copper use was linked to more fundamental changes in the perception of, and engagement with, the material world. These changes were associated with the Neolithization of eastern Fennoscandia, which started earlier than has traditionally been thought. It is also argued that the adoption, use, and manipulation of new materials played an active role in the emergence of the Neolithic world in north-eastern Europe and beyond. Also, issues related to the Finno–Russian border dividing up eastern Fennoscandia and its effects on the study of early metal use and other prehistoric cultural processes are discussed.

scholarly journals Tracing the Materiality of Feathers in Stone Age North-Eastern Europe

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-46
Author(s):  
Kristiina Mannermaa ◽  
Tuija Kirkinen
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Microscopic Analysis ◽  
Soil Samples ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
Mesolithic Period

The use of feathers in ritual costumes and everyday clothing is well described in ethnographic sources throughout the world. From the same sources we know that bird wings and feathers were loaded with meaning in traditional societies worldwide. However, direct archaeological evidence of prehistoric use of feathers is still extremely scarce. Hence, feathers belong to the ‘missing majority’: items that are absent from the archaeological record but which we can assume to have been of importance. Here we present microscopic analysis of soil samples from hunter-gatherer burial contexts which reveal the first direct evidence of the use of feathers in the Mesolithic period of north-eastern Europe.

ПРОЦЕСС НЕОЛИТИЗАЦИИ НА ТЕРРИТОРИИ ЛЕСНОЙ ПОЛОСЫ

2021 ◽  
pp. 297-301
Author(s):  
Анастасия Юрьевна Назарова
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
The West ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Late Mesolithic

Статья посвящена анализу наиболее изученных культур неолита лесной полосы от Скандинавии и Восточной Прибалтики до Волго-Камья и Приуралья (VII–IV тыс. до н.э.). Для анализа были отобраны следующие признаки неолитического пакета: керамика, шлифованные деревообрабатывающие орудия, долговременные жилища, крупные могильники, святилища и предметы импорта. В ходе исследования были собраны материалы по 16 археологическим культурам региона. В результате были выделены наиболее развитые неолитические культуры лесной полосы, с учетом данных, которые существуют насегодняшний день. Помимо этого, были выявлены наиболее часто встречающиеся признаки: керамика и шлифованные деревообрабатывающие орудия. Редким признаком является наличие святилищ. Были сделаны выводы об уровне развития исследуемых культур. Библиографические ссылки Выборнов А.А. Неолит степного-лесостепного Поволжья и Прикамья. Дисс. ... докт. истор. наук. СаВыборнов А.А. Неолит степного-лесостепного Поволжья и Прикамья. Дисс. ... докт. истор. наук. Самара, 2009. 393 с. Карманов В.Н. Неолит европейского Северо-Востока. Сыктывкар: Коми научный центр УрО РАН, 2008. 226 с. Лычагина Е.Л. Неолит Верхнего и Среднего Прикамья. Дисс... докт. ист. наук.  Пермь, 2019. 632 с. Назарова А.Ю. Проявление признаков неолитического пакета на территории лесной полосы в VII – IV тыс. до н.э. // Археология Евразийских степей. 2020. №5. С. 69–76. Назарова А.Ю. Сравнение неолитического пакета культур Восточной Прибалтики и Скандинавии // LIII Урало-Поволжская археологическая конференция студентов и молодых ученых (УПАСК, 1-3 февраля 2021 г.): материалы Всероссийской научно-практической конференции студентов, аспирантов и молодых ученых. / Отв. ред. А.А. Евгеньев. Оренбург: ОГПУ, 2021. С. 42-44 Неолит Северной Евразии / Археология СССР / Отв.ред. С.В. Ошибкина. М.: Наука, 1996. 380 с. Никитин В.В. Итоги изучения каменного века в Марийском Поволжье // Поволжская Археология. №3 (21). 2017. С. 168–189. Ошибкина С.В. Понятие о неолите // Неолит Северной Евразии. / Археология СССР / Отв. ред. С.В. Ошибкина. М.: Наука, 1996, С. 6–10. Kriiska A., Oras E., Lõugas L., Meadows J., Lucquinand A., Craig O. E. Late Mesolithic Narva Stage in Estonia: pottery, settlement types and chronology // Estonian Journal of Archaeology. 2017. No 1 (21). P. 52–86. Nordqvist, K., 2018. The Stone Age of north-eastern Europe 5500-1800 calBC. Bridging the gap between the East and the West. Academic dissertstion. Acta Universitatis Ouluensis. B Humanitaria 160. 2018. 164 p. Raemaekers D. Ertebolle and Swifterbant a comparison of attitudes // Anthropologie et Prehistoire. 1998. № 109. P. 155–161.

scholarly journals Perceived benefits from agroforestry landscapes across North-Eastern Europe: What matters and for whom?

2021 ◽  
Vol 209 ◽  
pp. 104044
Author(s):  
M. Elbakidze ◽  
D. Surová ◽  
J. Muñoz-Rojas ◽  
J-O. Persson ◽  
L. Dawson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
What Matters

scholarly journals New evidence for prehistoric copper metallurgy in the vicinity of Bor

Starinar ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 173-191
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Kapuran ◽  
Dragana Zivkovic ◽  
Nada Strbac
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Copper Ore ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Metallurgical Furnaces ◽  
Copper Metallurgy ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The Bronze Age

The last three years of archaeological investigations at the site Ru`ana in Banjsko Polje, in the immediate vicinity of Bor, have provided new evidence regarding the role of non-ferrous metallurgy in the economy of the prehistoric communities of north-eastern Serbia. The remains of metallurgical furnaces and a large amount of metallic slags at two neighbouring sites in the mentioned settlement reveal that locations with many installations for the thermal processing of copper ore existed in the Bronze Age. We believe, judging by the finds of material culture, that metallurgical activities in this area also continued into the Iron Age and, possibly, into the 4th century AD.

scholarly journals Ancient human genes of North-Eastern Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
Päivi Onkamo ◽  
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Kerttu Majander ◽  
Sanni Peltola ◽  
Elina Salmela ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Human Genes ◽  
North Eastern

Made for exchange: the Russian Karelian lithic industry and hunter-fisher-gatherer exchange networks in prehistoric north-eastern Europe

Antiquity ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Alexey Tarasov ◽  
Kerkko Nordqvist
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Scale Production ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Exchange Networks ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Agricultural Societies ◽  
Lithic Industry ◽  
Distance Communication

The hunter-fisher-gatherers of fourth- to third-millennium BC north-eastern Europe shared many characteristics traditionally associated with Neolithic and Chalcolithic agricultural societies. Here, the authors examine north-eastern European hunter-fisher-gatherer exchange networks, focusing on the Russian Karelian lithic industry. The geographically limited, large-scale production of Russian Karelian artefacts for export testifies to the specialised production of lithic material culture that was exchanged over 1000km from the production workshops. Functioning both as everyday tools and objects of social and ritual engagement, and perhaps even constituting a means of long-distance communication, the Russian Karelian industry finds parallels with the exchange systems of contemporaneous European agricultural populations.

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