Dwellings as population proxies? Identifying reuse of coastal Stone Age housepits in Arctic Norway by means of Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates
Almost for a century, the archaeological record of the coastal Stone Age housepit sites in Arctic Norway has been at the centre of attention in many archaeological studies of this region. Although housepit reuse is occasionally recognised in particular cases, the theme does not get the proper attent...
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ftunivbergen:oai:bora.uib.no:11250/3000488 2023-05-15T14:57:58+02:00 Dwellings as population proxies? Identifying reuse of coastal Stone Age housepits in Arctic Norway by means of Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates Vollan, Kenneth Webb Berg Olsen, Dag Erik Færø 2022 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3000488 eng eng The University of Bergen UBAS – Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter;12 urn:isbn:978-82-8436-002-7 urn:isbn:978-82-8436-003-4 urn:issn:2535-390X urn:issn:2535-3918 https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3000488 In: Dag Erik Færø Olsen (ed.) (2022). The Stone Age Conference in Bergen 2017. Copyright the author(s). All rights reserved Stone Age northern Norway housepits radiocarbon dates Bayesian modelling Chapter Peer reviewed 2022 ftunivbergen 2023-03-14T17:41:24Z Almost for a century, the archaeological record of the coastal Stone Age housepit sites in Arctic Norway has been at the centre of attention in many archaeological studies of this region. Although housepit reuse is occasionally recognised in particular cases, the theme does not get the proper attention it deserves. Since the early 1990s, an increasing number of radiocarbon samples have been dated, and the most recent excavations provide 14C-dates from single dwelling structures in quantities not formerly seen. Frequently, the radiocarbon determinations from one housepit prove to be widely spread in time, and hint towards the possibility of reuse. Here I contribute to the subject by outlining a formal method for analysing radiocarbon dates to detect episodes of housepit reuse, and by presenting the first estimation of the magnitude of the phenomena on a larger scale. Radiocarbon dates from three large-scale excavation projects, conducted between 1991 and 2010, are modelled following the Bayesian approach, and the chronological relationship between the dates is evaluated by statistical testing. The analysis reveals that housepit reuse is far more common than hitherto acknowledged, consequently each housepit can represent multiple household generations. Book Part Arctic Northern Norway University of Bergen: Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA-UiB) Arctic Norway |
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Almost for a century, the archaeological record of the coastal Stone Age housepit sites in Arctic Norway has been at the centre of attention in many archaeological studies of this region. Although housepit reuse is occasionally recognised in particular cases, the theme does not get the proper attention it deserves. Since the early 1990s, an increasing number of radiocarbon samples have been dated, and the most recent excavations provide 14C-dates from single dwelling structures in quantities not formerly seen. Frequently, the radiocarbon determinations from one housepit prove to be widely spread in time, and hint towards the possibility of reuse. Here I contribute to the subject by outlining a formal method for analysing radiocarbon dates to detect episodes of housepit reuse, and by presenting the first estimation of the magnitude of the phenomena on a larger scale. Radiocarbon dates from three large-scale excavation projects, conducted between 1991 and 2010, are modelled following the Bayesian approach, and the chronological relationship between the dates is evaluated by statistical testing. The analysis reveals that housepit reuse is far more common than hitherto acknowledged, consequently each housepit can represent multiple household generations. |
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Dwellings as population proxies? Identifying reuse of coastal Stone Age housepits in Arctic Norway by means of Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates |
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Dwellings as population proxies? Identifying reuse of coastal Stone Age housepits in Arctic Norway by means of Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates |
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Dwellings as population proxies? Identifying reuse of coastal Stone Age housepits in Arctic Norway by means of Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates |
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Dwellings as population proxies? Identifying reuse of coastal Stone Age housepits in Arctic Norway by means of Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates |
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Dwellings as population proxies? Identifying reuse of coastal Stone Age housepits in Arctic Norway by means of Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates |
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dwellings as population proxies? identifying reuse of coastal stone age housepits in arctic norway by means of bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates |
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The University of Bergen |
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Arctic Northern Norway |
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UBAS – Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter;12 urn:isbn:978-82-8436-002-7 urn:isbn:978-82-8436-003-4 urn:issn:2535-390X urn:issn:2535-3918 https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3000488 In: Dag Erik Færø Olsen (ed.) (2022). The Stone Age Conference in Bergen 2017. |
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