East meets west in the 6th millennium: Mesolithic osseous tools and art from Sise on the Latvian seaboard

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dc.contributor.authorZagorska, Ilga
dc.contributor.authorLõugas, Lembi
dc.contributor.authorLübke, Harald
dc.contributor.authorMeadows, John
dc.contributor.authorPettitt, Paul
dc.contributor.authorMacāne, Aija
dc.contributor.authorBērziņš, Valdis
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-08T16:28:40Z
dc.date.available2023-02-08T16:28:40Z
dc.date.issued2021-08-25
dc.description.abstractA collection of 141 bone and antler tools and debitage pieces recovered from the River Užava at the village of Sise constitutes the largest Mesolithic osseous assemblage in western Latvia. Radiocarbon dating of 12 pieces suggests that most of this collection dates from the 6th millennium calBC. We present a general analysis, highlighting typical and unique tool forms, ornamented and sculpted pieces, and assess the corpus in a wider geographical context. Predominant in this rich and diverse collection are heavy duty antler tools: various forms of adzes, axes and hammers as well as sleeves, made either from shed antler or antler of hunted animals. They include two pieces classifiable as T-axes. Spear- and arrowheads as well as daggers are also present, Along with chisels, wedges, awls and other tools. Artistic representations include five sculpted and engraved objects. The heavy duty red deer antler tools have parallels in the region south of the Baltic Sea, whereas the bone projectile forms are familiar from Kunda and Narva Culture sites of the East Baltic; the closest similarity is with osseous assemblages from coastal western Ļithuania.en_US
dc.description.sponsorship“People in a dynamic landscape: tracing the biography of Latvia’s sandy coastal belt”, lzp-2018/1-0171; NERC/ ORADS grant NF/2017/1/4 Latvian Council of Science, lzp-2018/1-0171 NERC, NF/2017/1/4en_US
dc.identifier.citationZagorska, Ilga, Lõugas, Lembi, Lübke, Harald, Meadows, John, Pettitt, Paul, Macāne, Aija and Bērziņš, Valdis. " East meets west in the 6th millennium: Mesolithic osseous tools and art from Sise on the Latvian seaboard" Praehistorische Zeitschrift, vol. 96, no. 1, 2021, pp. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1515/pz-2021-0003en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/pz-2021-0003
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/pz-2021-0003/html
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lu.lv/dspace/handle/7/61783
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherWalter de Gruyter GmbHen_US
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Latvian Council of Science/NERC/ ORADS grant/lzp-2018/1-0171/Jurisdiction/People in a dynamic landscape: tracing the biography of Latvia’s sandy coastal belt/ProjectAcronym/en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPraehistorische Zeitschrift;96 (1)
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectEast Balticen_US
dc.subjectMesolithicen_US
dc.subjectLatviaen_US
dc.subjectbone artefactsen_US
dc.subjectantler artefactsen_US
dc.subjectCervus elaphusen_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::History and philosophy subjects::Ethnologyen_US
dc.titleEast meets west in the 6th millennium: Mesolithic osseous tools and art from Sise on the Latvian seaboarden_US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleen_US
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