The Mesolithic hunter-gatherer camp site at Sammakko in Norrbotten, northernmost Sweden - archaeological finds and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction

• Published in: Geoarchaeology
• Main Authors: Möller, Per, Palmbo, Frida, Nielsen, Anne Birgitte, Boman, Emma, Dong, Haoran, Björck, Svante, Cai, Yuanyang, Gimbe, Jannica, Macleod, Ruairidh, Shen, Mingjian, Wang, Yucheng, Westerlund, Mica, Xue, Zhe
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2024
• Subjects: Archaeology; Geosciences; Multidisciplinary; dog domestication; Early Holocene vegetation reconstruction; hunter–gatherer; Mesolithic; osteological analysis; pollen analysis; reindeer hunting; sedaDNA analysis; Arctic; Veiki; Aareavaara; Sammakko; Dwarf birch; Norrbotten
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/da2255ed-28b6-45c1-9ee4-26e1dd7118bc; https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.22030

A small Mesolithic campsite near Sammakko in northernmost Sweden has been identified through its abundance of burnt bone and quartz refuse from stone tool manufacturing/ maintenance. Radiocarbon dating places hunter-gatherer activity here around 8900 years ago, 1800 years later than the oldest known...