The osseous technology of Hohen Viecheln: A Maglemosian idiosyncrasy?

  • geschrieben von Éva David
  • Untersuchungen und Materialien zur Steinzeit in Schleswig-Holstein
  • Band: 10
  • 1. Auflage
  • 29,7 x 21,5 cm
  • 408 Seiten
  • Erscheinungsdatum: 31.03.2020
  • doi: 10.23797/9783529018619-3

Die Reihe wird herausgegeben vom Museum für Archäologie Schloss Gottorf und vom Zentrum für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie (ZBSA) in der Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig.

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chapter 1 (pp. 15–111)

Re-evaluation of the site Hohen Viecheln 1

chapter 2 (pp. 113–126)

Radiocarbon dating bone and antler artefacts from Mesolithic Hohen Viecheln (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany)

chapter 4 (pp. 163–177)

An evaluation of the antler headdress evidence from Hohen Viecheln

chapter 5 (pp. 179–192)

Nordic Visits to Hohen Viecheln, Mecklenburg

chapter 6 (pp. 193–201)

The Mesolithic bone industries of northeast Germany and their geo-archaeological background

chapter 7 (pp. 203–238)

Early Mesolithic bone points from Schleswig-Holstein

chapter 8 (pp. 239–254)

Early Mesolithic hunting strategies for red deer, roe deer and wild boar at Friesack 4, a three-stage Preboreal and Boreal site in northern Germany

chapter 9 (pp. 255–262)

Lost at the bottom of the lake. Early and Middle Mesolithic leister points found in the bog Rönneholms Mosse, southern Sweden

chapter 10 (pp. 263–287)

Points of bone and antler from the Late Mesolithic settlement in Motala, eastern central Sweden

chapter 11 (pp. 289–303)

The Early Mesolithic fisheries of southern Scandinavia

chapter 12 (pp. 305–318)

The Early Mesolithic bone and antler industry in Latvia, eastern Baltic

chapter 13 (pp. 319–339)

Early Mesolithic barbed bone points in the Volga-Oka interfluve

chapter 14 (pp. 341–365)

Bone and antler projectile points from the Meso-Neolithic site Zamostje 2, Moscow region, Russia

chapter 15 (pp. 367–382)

Early Mesolithic bone projectile points of the Urals

chapter 16 (pp. 383–404)

Hunting beneath the waves. Bone and antler points from North Sea Doggerland off the Dutch coast

chapter 17 (pp. 419–432)

Understanding the bone and antler assemblages from Star Carr

chapter 18 (pp. 405–418)

Excavations at Star Carr: past and present

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Many wetland areas in Northern Europe have preserved relevant organic material, but the archaeological
site of Hohen Viecheln (Germany) offers the exceptional preservation of part of an open-air lakeside settlement
site much as it was during its long period of occupation in the Early Holocene. The analysis of production
debris and artefacts discarded there amongst the refuse of consumption has provided evidence for a
culturally-specific concept underlying the production of hunting/fishing gear. The major potential of this corpus
of finds lies in the opportunity it presents for the comparison of the technologies employed at the site over
time, and the broadening of such comparisons to contemporaneous sites that have yielded similar assemblages
in neighbouring and more distant regions. On the basis of artefact morphology and fabrication techniques of
artefacts made of the bones of butchered animals, Hohen Viecheln has become a key Postglacial (Early Mesolithic)
site in the illumination of a unique technological tradition, the ‘northern technocomplex’, spanning
the whole of Northern Europe west of the Baltic Sea during the Early Mesolithic, distinct from contemporary
technologies of other Nordic regions, and those of eastern origin.
The northern technocomplex, which represents a technological tradition that occurred in the bone manufacture
in the western part of Northern Europe from the 9th to 8th millennia cal. BC, is marked by a strong
diachronic consistency in artefact form and design over a period of about two millennia. Within it, Hohen
Viecheln stands out for the relative crudeness of the barbed points that were probably used as leister prongs.
An analysis of this unique technological trait raises two primary areas of further inquiry: 1) the relationship
between the industrial domain and that of subsistence, when a single animal species served as a primary
resource in both domains, and 2) the recognition of distinct cultural groups founded on a techno-stylistic
variability as observed in the form of such projectile points. It is assumed here that Hohen Viecheln belonged
to (a) subgroup(s) (Duvensee/Pritzerbe) of this northern technocomplex throughout the period of its occupation,
with the addition of a Maglemosian component in its more recent phase. Without offering a conclusive
explanation of the origin of this apparent technological transformation, from Duvensee/Pritzerbe to Duvensee/
Pritzerbe + Maglemose (autochthonous innovation, acculturation, import?), the study examines the
Hohen Viecheln osseous industry in diachronic and regional context, and in comparison with contemporary
assemblages from the neighbouring region of Zealand (Denmark), where the Maglemosian appears – technostylistically
– as a more internally-consistent, monolithic entity. The results provide new evidence relevant
to the old debate over the appropriateness of chrono-cultural seriation based solely on durable elements of
material production and the implications for understanding the relationships between recognized postglacial
cultural groups in this area of Northern Europe.

David, É.: The osseous technology of Hohen Viecheln: A Maglemosian idiosyncrasy?, in: Gross et al. (edd.), Working at The Sharp End at Hohen Viecheln, Untersuchungen und Materialien zur Steinzeit in Schleswig-Holstein und im Ostseeraum, Vol. 10, pp. 127–162, DOI: 10.23797/9783529018619-3.