A large fifth-millennium BC cemetery in the subarctic north of the Baltic Sea?
The European far north is an improbable location for a large prehistoric hunter-gatherer cemetery. Tainiaro, 80km south of the Arctic Circle, was first excavated four decades ago but the unpublished findings and their potential significance have evaded wider recognition. Despite the absence of skele...
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crantiquitypubl:10.15184/aqy.2023.160 2024-05-19T07:35:58+00:00 A large fifth-millennium BC cemetery in the subarctic north of the Baltic Sea? Hakonen, Aki Perälä, Noora Vaneeckhout, Samuel Laurén, Tuija Okkonen, Jari 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.160 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0003598X23001606 en eng Antiquity Publications https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Antiquity volume 97, issue 396, page 1402-1419 ISSN 0003-598X 1745-1744 journal-article 2023 crantiquitypubl https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.160 2024-05-01T06:47:28Z The European far north is an improbable location for a large prehistoric hunter-gatherer cemetery. Tainiaro, 80km south of the Arctic Circle, was first excavated four decades ago but the unpublished findings and their potential significance have evaded wider recognition. Despite the absence of skeletal evidence, dozens of fifth-millennium BC pits have been tentatively interpreted as burials. Here, the authors present the first analytical and comparative overview of the site. Many of the pits are consistent in form with those used for inhumation at contemporaneous sites suggesting that Tainiaro is one of the largest Stone Age cemeteries in northern Europe and raising questions about the cultural and subsistence practices of prehistoric societies in the subarctic. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Subarctic Antiquity Antiquity 97 396 1402 1419 |
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The European far north is an improbable location for a large prehistoric hunter-gatherer cemetery. Tainiaro, 80km south of the Arctic Circle, was first excavated four decades ago but the unpublished findings and their potential significance have evaded wider recognition. Despite the absence of skeletal evidence, dozens of fifth-millennium BC pits have been tentatively interpreted as burials. Here, the authors present the first analytical and comparative overview of the site. Many of the pits are consistent in form with those used for inhumation at contemporaneous sites suggesting that Tainiaro is one of the largest Stone Age cemeteries in northern Europe and raising questions about the cultural and subsistence practices of prehistoric societies in the subarctic. |
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A large fifth-millennium BC cemetery in the subarctic north of the Baltic Sea? |
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A large fifth-millennium BC cemetery in the subarctic north of the Baltic Sea? |
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A large fifth-millennium BC cemetery in the subarctic north of the Baltic Sea? |
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