Early boats in Scandinavia: new evidence from Early Iron Age bog finds in Arctic Norway
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology . The final authenticated version is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-019-09232-1 . This article considers early boats in Scandinavian spanning a timeframe from Early Mes...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/16601 2023-05-15T14:26:08+02:00 Early boats in Scandinavia: new evidence from Early Iron Age bog finds in Arctic Norway Wickler, Stephen 2019-04-12 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/16601 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-019-09232-1 eng eng Springer Nature Journal of Maritime Archaeology Wickler, S. (2019). Early boats in Scandinavia: new evidence from Early Iron Age bog finds in Arctic Norway. Journal of Maritime Archaeology, 14 (2), 183-204. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-019-09232-1 FRIDAID 1741978 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-019-09232-1 1557-2285 1557-2293 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/16601 openAccess VDP::Humanities: 000::Archeology: 090::Nordic archeology: 091 VDP::Humaniora: 000::Arkeologi: 090::Nordisk arkeologi: 091 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed 2019 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-019-09232-1 2021-06-25T17:56:54Z This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology . The final authenticated version is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-019-09232-1 . This article considers early boats in Scandinavian spanning a timeframe from Early Mesolithic colonization at c. 9500 cal BC up until the beginning of the Late Iron Age around AD 600 from a northern Norwegian perspective. The role of boats in current models of maritime colonization and proxy evidence from carved rock art images of Bronze Age to Early Iron Age boats are evaluated before focusing on newly dated boat remains from bogs in Arctic Norway currently housed at The Arctic University Museum of Norway. These include paddles predating the Iron Age and finds supporting the existence of rowed plank-built vessels in the early Pre-Roman Iron Age (500–0 BC). Rowing evidence includes a boat frame and oar radiocarbon dated to the sixth to fifth century BC and two oars from the later Pre-Roman Iron Age. Consequently, a revision of thinking about early Iron Age boat development is necessary, not only in Arctic Norway but also elsewhere in Scandinavia and Fennoscandia. The context of the earliest plank-built vessel in Scandinavia, the paddled war canoe from Hjortspring, Denmark, dated to c. 350 BC, is reevaluated in light of a probable coexistence with rowed boats. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Fennoscandia University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Norway Journal of Maritime Archaeology 14 2 183 204 |
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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology . The final authenticated version is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-019-09232-1 . This article considers early boats in Scandinavian spanning a timeframe from Early Mesolithic colonization at c. 9500 cal BC up until the beginning of the Late Iron Age around AD 600 from a northern Norwegian perspective. The role of boats in current models of maritime colonization and proxy evidence from carved rock art images of Bronze Age to Early Iron Age boats are evaluated before focusing on newly dated boat remains from bogs in Arctic Norway currently housed at The Arctic University Museum of Norway. These include paddles predating the Iron Age and finds supporting the existence of rowed plank-built vessels in the early Pre-Roman Iron Age (500–0 BC). Rowing evidence includes a boat frame and oar radiocarbon dated to the sixth to fifth century BC and two oars from the later Pre-Roman Iron Age. Consequently, a revision of thinking about early Iron Age boat development is necessary, not only in Arctic Norway but also elsewhere in Scandinavia and Fennoscandia. The context of the earliest plank-built vessel in Scandinavia, the paddled war canoe from Hjortspring, Denmark, dated to c. 350 BC, is reevaluated in light of a probable coexistence with rowed boats. |
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Early boats in Scandinavia: new evidence from Early Iron Age bog finds in Arctic Norway |
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Early boats in Scandinavia: new evidence from Early Iron Age bog finds in Arctic Norway |
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Early boats in Scandinavia: new evidence from Early Iron Age bog finds in Arctic Norway |
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Early boats in Scandinavia: new evidence from Early Iron Age bog finds in Arctic Norway |
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Early boats in Scandinavia: new evidence from Early Iron Age bog finds in Arctic Norway |
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