Mobility and material culture in the Middle Mesolithic of Fennoscandia - validating the input from biomolecular studies
Similarities in late-glacial lithic technology (direct percussion) of western Europe and the oldest counterparts of Scandinavia appearing around 11,700 BP have sustained arguments for an early postglacial migration from northwestern Europe into Scandinavia including coastal areas of northern Norway....
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ftntnutrondheimi:oai:ntnuopen.ntnu.no:11250/3043200 2023-05-15T15:51:46+02:00 Mobility and material culture in the Middle Mesolithic of Fennoscandia - validating the input from biomolecular studies Skar, Birgitte 2022 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3043200 eng eng UiB Universitetet i Bergen arkeologiske skrifter (UBAS). 2022, 12 105-122. urn:issn:2535-390X https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3043200 cristin:1984546 105-122 12 Universitetet i Bergen arkeologiske skrifter (UBAS) Peer reviewed Journal article 2022 ftntnutrondheimi 2023-01-18T23:43:11Z Similarities in late-glacial lithic technology (direct percussion) of western Europe and the oldest counterparts of Scandinavia appearing around 11,700 BP have sustained arguments for an early postglacial migration from northwestern Europe into Scandinavia including coastal areas of northern Norway. However, another lithic technology (pressure blade), occurring in Fennoscandia around 10,300 BP, indicates contacts with groups in the east and potentially a second and east-west migration deriving from the Russian mainland. aDNA studies of some of the oldest coastal human individuals from Europe, represented by two Norwegian skeletons (9500 BP) unveiled admixture of southern hunter gatherer (SHG) and eastern hunter gatherer (EHG), descended from isolated Glacial refugia. The Norwegian samples show dominance of EHG while contemporary samples from Gotland show a dominance of SHG ancestry. Isotopic markers of a diet consisting of more than 80% marine protein deriving from the highest level of the food chain sustain the importance and likely attraction of marine mammal resources. The biomolecular results underpin a second migration into Norway from northeast c. 10,300 BP, likely over the Cap of the North. Recent lithic studies covering larger parts of Central Scandinavia and Russia, however, provide a more fine-tuned narrative of networks and pulses of migration. publishedVersion Article in Journal/Newspaper Cap of the north Fennoscandia Northern Norway NTNU Open Archive (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Norway |
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Similarities in late-glacial lithic technology (direct percussion) of western Europe and the oldest counterparts of Scandinavia appearing around 11,700 BP have sustained arguments for an early postglacial migration from northwestern Europe into Scandinavia including coastal areas of northern Norway. However, another lithic technology (pressure blade), occurring in Fennoscandia around 10,300 BP, indicates contacts with groups in the east and potentially a second and east-west migration deriving from the Russian mainland. aDNA studies of some of the oldest coastal human individuals from Europe, represented by two Norwegian skeletons (9500 BP) unveiled admixture of southern hunter gatherer (SHG) and eastern hunter gatherer (EHG), descended from isolated Glacial refugia. The Norwegian samples show dominance of EHG while contemporary samples from Gotland show a dominance of SHG ancestry. Isotopic markers of a diet consisting of more than 80% marine protein deriving from the highest level of the food chain sustain the importance and likely attraction of marine mammal resources. The biomolecular results underpin a second migration into Norway from northeast c. 10,300 BP, likely over the Cap of the North. Recent lithic studies covering larger parts of Central Scandinavia and Russia, however, provide a more fine-tuned narrative of networks and pulses of migration. publishedVersion |
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Mobility and material culture in the Middle Mesolithic of Fennoscandia - validating the input from biomolecular studies |
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Mobility and material culture in the Middle Mesolithic of Fennoscandia - validating the input from biomolecular studies |
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Mobility and material culture in the Middle Mesolithic of Fennoscandia - validating the input from biomolecular studies |
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Mobility and material culture in the Middle Mesolithic of Fennoscandia - validating the input from biomolecular studies |
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Mobility and material culture in the Middle Mesolithic of Fennoscandia - validating the input from biomolecular studies |
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mobility and material culture in the middle mesolithic of fennoscandia - validating the input from biomolecular studies |
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