Call for Papers by Harald Lübke
Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Mesolithic sites in the Duvenseer Moor.... more Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Mesolithic sites in the Duvenseer Moor. As agreed at the last conference in Nykøbing, Falster, Denmark, we are pleased to invite you and the MesoAG together with the association "Duvenseer Moor" e.V. and with the support of the Archäologisches Landesamt Schleswig-Holstein and the Museum für Archäologie Schleswig to Duvensee, district of Herzogtum Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, in March 2023.
The conference will take place from 9-12 March 2023 in the village community center "Duvenseer Schmiede", Dörpstraat 39, 23898 Duvensee.
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It should largely be agreed that in the Early and Middle Holocene the communication and transport... more It should largely be agreed that in the Early and Middle Holocene the communication and transport routes were mainly based on the intra-European water network and coastlines. However, it is still unclear in what form this exchange of goods, ideas and individuals took place and which vessels were available. In northern Europe, paddles are documented as a means of propulsion for the Preboreal, but boats have only been found for the late Boreal. It is therefore still being discussed whether, instead of dugouts, frame boats were already being used, but archaeological evidence is difficult. Human adaptive and innovative ability to conquer new ecological niches and to respond to environmental changes with technical innovations has led to the invention of new boatbuilding technologies and the development of well-organized mobility strategies. Mobility is a basic requirement for the exchange not only of material goods, but also of knowledge and ideas and thus of great importance for the socioeconomic , cultural and socio-political systems at that time. Cultural constraints, behavioral interactions and social norms could have regulated mobility and communication. Technology and ergology can express the identity of a group and provide insights into contacts and communication between different prehistoric societies. This session aims to deepen current knowledge within the framework of local, supra-regional, and diachronic development and application of waterborne transport and communication as well as other linked activities. In locations where direct evidence is insufficient, various forms of indirect evidence are employed. Therefore, apart from studies utilising archaeological sources, we would also like to encourage researchers contributing with studies applying analogous data, from the viewpoint of, e.g., ethnography, anthropology, and ethnohistory to help build reference frames and further our understanding about waterborne transport and communication as a phenomenon and its dynamics in the long term.
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Cutting-edge interdisciplinary research of the last 10-15 years has clearly demonstrated that aqu... more Cutting-edge interdisciplinary research of the last 10-15 years has clearly demonstrated that aquatic resources have constituted an essential part of the economic base of the early and mid Holocene hunter-gatherers of Northern Europe and, therefore, it may be better to refer to these groups as hunter-fisher-gatherer communities. New research has revealed archaeological sites also in submerged and wetland conditions, which has led to the discovery of well-preserved fishing equipment as well as the recovery of larger quantities of small-sized and fragmentary fish remains. In addition, isotopic research on human bones and bio-archaeological analyses of early pottery have attested to the considerable consumption of aquatic resources by early forager communities. Some novel approaches have also been developed, for example, in studying the sedimentary record of open-air sites suggesting systematic utilisation of fish even in areas where the direct evidence confirming this is scarce or non-existing.
The fishing topic seems to be central for the understanding of various hunter-fisher-gatherer communities, and therefore this session aims to distribute information about novel and cutting-edge scientific methodologies for furthering our knowledge about the subsistence and cultural development of the early and mid Holocene populations. The purpose here is to convene specialists who work actively on fishing-related topics in Northern Europe, between the North Atlantic and the Urals. Presentations will be highly appreciated on topics concerning, e.g., the application of novel and/or interdisciplinary approaches for improving our understanding of the importance of fishing as well as on how to proceed within fishing studies and what methodologies and cooperation (inter/multidisciplinary) ought to be established and developed further.
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OPEN WORKSHOP 11TH - 16TH MARCH, 2019, CAU KIEL, GERMANY. Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 12,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes VI, Mar 11, 2019
Burial practices, as a kind of ritual activities, consist of many steps, represented archaeologic... more Burial practices, as a kind of ritual activities, consist of many steps, represented archaeologically by different types of burial objects and features, which quite often reflect and clarify cultural distinctions. From this point, the Northeast European forest zone from the Baltic to the Urals is of great interest in the Early and Mid-Holocene. Besides a considerable cultural diversity connected to hunter-gatherer communities, the territory is characterized by a generally favorable preservation of organic materials, including human skeletal remains. Nevertheless, the area has remained virtually a terra incognita from a comparative perspective assessing cultural links and chronological trajectories between Later Stone Age burial sites on a supraregional scale, although it is of particular interest also from a Western perspective due to the sequential, regionally very diverse appearance of " Neolithic " traits such as first pottery and early agriculture within this Eastern hunter-gatherer sphere. With respect to the application of a modern multi-proxy spectrum of methods to the information and materials from previously excavated sites, targeted analyses of existing finds as well as new excavations at several key sites are currently changing this picture. All these factors and developments shape our current understanding of the cultural processes in the above-mentioned time and space. Therefore, the session provides a forum for scholars, which are working with materials from different burial sites. Based on these contributions, variations, discrepancies and similarities should become transparent across the outlined area. This will lead to a better understanding of the transformation of burial practices as well as the ritual sphere and its role in the lifeways of the communities.
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Call for Papers by Harald Lübke
The conference will take place from 9-12 March 2023 in the village community center "Duvenseer Schmiede", Dörpstraat 39, 23898 Duvensee.
The fishing topic seems to be central for the understanding of various hunter-fisher-gatherer communities, and therefore this session aims to distribute information about novel and cutting-edge scientific methodologies for furthering our knowledge about the subsistence and cultural development of the early and mid Holocene populations. The purpose here is to convene specialists who work actively on fishing-related topics in Northern Europe, between the North Atlantic and the Urals. Presentations will be highly appreciated on topics concerning, e.g., the application of novel and/or interdisciplinary approaches for improving our understanding of the importance of fishing as well as on how to proceed within fishing studies and what methodologies and cooperation (inter/multidisciplinary) ought to be established and developed further.
Papers by Harald Lübke
The conference will take place from 9-12 March 2023 in the village community center "Duvenseer Schmiede", Dörpstraat 39, 23898 Duvensee.
The fishing topic seems to be central for the understanding of various hunter-fisher-gatherer communities, and therefore this session aims to distribute information about novel and cutting-edge scientific methodologies for furthering our knowledge about the subsistence and cultural development of the early and mid Holocene populations. The purpose here is to convene specialists who work actively on fishing-related topics in Northern Europe, between the North Atlantic and the Urals. Presentations will be highly appreciated on topics concerning, e.g., the application of novel and/or interdisciplinary approaches for improving our understanding of the importance of fishing as well as on how to proceed within fishing studies and what methodologies and cooperation (inter/multidisciplinary) ought to be established and developed further.
• This session will address the specific methodological and archaeological approaches developed to infer the function of Early Holocene wetland sites in Europe. Several questions could be discussed:
• Field methodology
• Taphonomic and archaeological approaches to sites and remains (environmental archaeology, dating and chronology of depositional process, analysis of organic and lithic remains...)
• Reconstruction of wetland site function (specialised or temporary camps, permanent settlements, unique, stratified or mixed refuse layers) and their relationship with dryland sites.
We will give priority to communications discussing one or more of these questions from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Key words – Mesolithic; Final Palaeolithic; Early Neolithic; Westphalia
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The session deals with changes in areas around the Baltic Sea during the Early and Mid-Holocene. Because of the underlying climatic changes and thus environmental changes, the area was also the scene for various cultural developments during the period under investigation. Due to the melting of the glaciers at the end of the last Ice-Age, isostatic and eustatic movements caused continual changes to the Baltic Sea basin. But, changes in water level affected not only the Early and Mid-Holocene coast lines, the whole Baltic Sea drainage including large lakes, rivers and water sheds in the hinterland were also dramatically impacted by climate variability and consequent ecological changes. Thus, this had to affect prehistoric people as well by reducing or enlarging their territories. In order to evaluate the consequences of changes in the water networks on the environment, resources, and human behaviour, and to reconstruct human responses to these changes, this session pursues an interdisciplinary approach connecting environmental and archaeological research. We call for papers from various disciplines such as climatology, geology, palynology, zoology, and archaeology, to contribute to the understanding of the aforementioned processes. The discussion of the current chronological framework of coastline changes, water network displacements, lake level developments, and land upheaval/subsidence will enable us to synchronize palaeo-geographical and palaeo-cultural changes. This will serve as a basis for discussions of limitations and enhancements of cultural entities during the Early and Mid-Holocene.
This session aims to deepen current knowledge within the framework of local, supra-regional, and diachronic development and application of active and passive fishing techniques in the harvesting of aquatic resources as well as other linked activities. Where direct evidence of fish utilisation is insufficient, various forms of indirect evidence are employed. Settlement patterns, site location, fishing technology, and resource specialisation reflect the utilisation of fish as a food source, or as a source of raw materials. Therefore, apart from studies utilising archaeological fishing-related materials, we would also like to encourage researchers contributing studies applying analogous data, from the viewpoint of, e.g., ethnography, anthropology, and ethnohistory to help build the frames of reference and further our understanding about fishing as a phenomenon and its long-term dynamics.
Theme: Interpreting the Archaeological Record
Call for Papers and Posters (Deadline 16th February 2015)
Session AR11: Stationary fishing structures - Use of joint facilities by fishing communities
New research on European wetland, bog or underwater sites with well-preserved organics expands our understanding of the importance of aquatic resources in the economy of prehistoric Hunter-Fisher-Gatherer groups in Europe. The excellent preservation led not only to the discovery of active fishing gear like hooks, spears, leisters or tridents but also of larger equipment or structures like nets, traps or fishing fences. Better excavation methods led to the recovery of large quantities of small-sized faunal remains, which contradicts earlier investigations about the importance of fish as food. Finally, cutting-edge isotopic research on questions about human diet gives further evidence for the significance of this food resource.
Fishing could attain such importance for human consumption only because an appropriate technology was developed, with which substantial quantities of fish were captured. These were especially stationary fishing structures that are recorded in different coastal and inland regions since the Mesolithic. They were constructed from wood, stone and other materials, and are constructed in different ways, shapes and sizes. Predominantly the fishing structures are rather large, and it has to be supposed that prehistoric fishing communities organized the building and use, as well the processing of the catch, as a joint effort. Thus, the traditional manners of building and use have certainly established a kind of collective identity of the communities.
The session holders invite talks and posters that describe special archaeological features, review fishing technologies in a specific area or culture, or give evidence of long term traditions or comparisons from historic, ethnographic and experimental sources, or discuss question about ways of extracting, restoration and conservation of such fragile objects and their further life in museums, labs etc. It is anticipated that through discussion of the various themes, the workshop will stimulate the growing interest of the scientific community in new areas of research on stationary fishing structures and collaboration on a European-wide level.
2014 at the invitation of the district of Landshut. The meeting was attended by more than 60 scientists, students and amateur archaeologists from Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Italy, Switzerland and Denmark. A total of 20 papers were presented. In addition to the reports from the individual work areas of the participants, the Bavarian Mesolithic and a workshop on settlement dynamics in the Mesolithic were in the focus of the meeting.
Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 12,000 Years:
The Creation of Landscapes IV
Call for Papers
(Deadline 15th January 2015)
Session 1-1:
Fish(ing) communities and fishing technologies
in inland waters, rivers and at the coast
Fish is an important food resource for human societies which live in various aquatic landscapes. The utilization of fish is self-evident in water rich areas but infrequently proven by archaeological findings. Therefore the proportion of fish in the human diet of past societies is still quite unknown. Certainly it varied through time and between different regions. In this session we want to collect multi-disciplinary information about fishing technologies and exploited fish species communities from different time periods and regions and discuss the implications for societies, settlement systems and use concepts of the landscape.
Information can come from finds of prehistoric fishing equipment, fish bone analysis, ethnographical sources and historical evidence as well as isotope analysis. Fishing gear (both passive gear like nets, basket traps and fishing fences or similar structures and active gear like hooks, spears, leisters and tridents) is relative simple constructed, stable in its development and widely distributed, but surely there are differences that might provide insights into contacts and communication between different fishing societies. Fish bone analysis provides detailed information about fish resources, the selectivity of fishery, seasonality, the area of fishing activities and the environmental circumstances.
We encourage contributors to announce talks concerning all the mentioned topics. The session should demonstrate possibilities and limits of the different sources and deepen the inter-disciplinary discussion about the former use of various types of waters, resources, and equipment.
It was intended to focus the session on papers that connect regional/local environmental databases to the archaeological record, or which discuss the chronological modelling of Stone Age bog sites in more detail. Interdisciplinary collaboration and cutting-edge scientific methods are enabling high-resolution palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental modelling to be used to discover how people reacted and adapted to severe climate changes at the end of the Ice Age and in the early Holocene. The preservation of organic materials means that bog sites are often ideally suited to the application of Bayesian chronological modelling methods for the interpretation of radiocarbon results. However, papers that presented new results of investigation of Stone Age bog sites from a wider perspective were also accepted.
Interdisciplinary collaboration and cutting-edge scientific methods are enabling high-resolution palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental modelling to be used to discover how people reacted to and adapted to severe climate changes at the end of the Ice Age and in the early Holocene. The wonderful preservation of organic materials means that these sites are ideally suited to the application of Bayesian chronological modelling methods for the interpretation of radiocarbon results.
We would therefore like the session to focus on papers that connect regional/local environmental databases to the archaeological record, or which discuss the chronological modelling of Stone Age bog sites in more detail. However, papers that present new results of investigation of Stone Age bog sites from a wider perspective are also welcome. We anticipate that through discussion of the various themes, the session will broaden our common knowledge of these archaeological resources, stimulate the growing interest of the scientific community in new areas of research on bog sites, and foster collaboration on an international level.
Group fand als geschlossener Workshop in Höör, Südschweden, statt und wurde von Arne Sjöström, Björn Nilsson und Lars Larsson organisiert. Über 20 Kollegen aus acht Staaten nahmen an dem Treffen Ende August teil.
In addition, interdisciplinary collaboration and cutting edge scientific methods are enabling high-resolution palaeo-climatic and environmental change to be modelled which can be used to discover how these people reacted to and adapted to periods of extreme changes of their environment at the end of the Ice Age and the early Holocene. However, over many parts of Europe this resource is under threat due to current climate change and modern farming practices and extraction of peat, resulting in rapid peat degradation and the destruction of this valuable archaeological heritage.
The session aims at sharing information on cutting-edge scientific methodologies and to evaluate the threats to this valuable cultural resource. The purpose is to gather together specialists who work on bog sites which have produced evidence of hunter-gatherers from the end of the last Ice Age to the introduction of farming.
Presentations on the following topics are requested:
1. The archaeological resource at bog sites across Europe.
2. Cutting edge and innovative techniques through interdisciplinary collaboration.
3. Assessing the risks to the cultural heritage resource.
4. Engagement of a wider audience.
It is anticipated that through discussion of the various themes, the session will stimulate the growing interest of the scientific community in new areas of research on Mesolithic bog sites and collaboration on a European level.
gewonnenen kulturgeschichtlichen Erkenntnisse zu diskutieren.
Aus diesem Grund wurde ein gesamt-europäisches Stone Age Bog Group Network zur Erforschung steinzeitlicher Moorfundplätze gegründet. Dieses befasst sich sowohl mit der Archäologie als auch Vermittlung solcher Kulturarchive und erarbeitet eine internationale Datenbasis für die Erforschung derartiger Stationen. Ein weiterer wichtiger Aspekt, mit dem sich die Gruppe auseinandersetzt, ist die Gefährdung von Fundplätzen durch anthropogene Eingriffe. Um einen lebendigen Austausch zu gewährleisten, werden hierzu Workshops mit einem geschlossenen Teilnehmerkreis abgehalten, die an wechselnden, themenbezogenen Orten stattfinden und sich spezifischen Fragestellungen widmen sollen. Die Durchführung von Sessions auf internationalen Tagungen ermöglicht zudem den Austausch mit nicht beteiligten Kollegen wie auch der Präsentation des Netzwerkes vor der Fachöffentlichkeit.
popular. One application of individual diet reconstruction is the detection and quantification of dietary radiocarbon reservoir effects, which are correlated with the importance of aquatic
products as foodstuffs, an important research question in itself. Even at a societal level, the archaeological record does not resolve this question, as the function of simple and barbed bone
points, in particular, as hunting weapons or fishing equipment has long been debated. Recent investigations, however, have shown that archaeozoological assemblages from early Mesolithic
sites contain more fish remains than previously suspected.
Here we present new archaeozoological and stable isotopic data for a range of herbivores (auroch, elk, red and roe deer, beaver) and freshwater fish (northern pike, European perch,
European eel and Wels catfish) species, together with radiocarbon and stable isotope data from eight prehistoric humans, from the renowned Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic site of Friesack
IV. The availability of local reference data for herbivores and fish allows the amount of fish consumed by each individual to be quantified. Using modern values for local freshwater
reservoir effects, we can then calibrate the human radiocarbon ages.
Although the number of human samples is small, it is possible to infer a decline in the dietary importance of fish from the Preboreal to the Boreal Mesolithic, and an increase in aquatic
resource consumption from the Early Neolithic onwards. Finally, we will compare these data with comparable prehistoric sites in Northern Germany, including Groß Fredenwalde and
Ostorf-Tannenwerder.