Meeting for Transformation: A Locality for Ritual Activities During the Early Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture in Central Sweden

• Published in: Current Swedish Archaeology
• Main Authors: Lars Larsson, Sven-Gunnar Broström
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Svenska Arkeologiska Samfundet 2011
• Subjects: stone and flint axes; ritual deposition; destruction of objects; fire; Archaeology; CC1-960; Flint; Stensborg; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.37718/CSA.2011.12; https://doaj.org/article/8144b88835ef45adaeec01ae4cc8d653

The former island of Södertörn, just south of Stock- holm, was intensively settled during the Early Neo- lithic. For more than twenty years a field at Stensborg, Grödinge parish, was surveyed for surface finds. Most numerous among the various artefact categories were axes, with stone axes of differe...