Mobility, contact, and exchange in the Baltic Sea basin 6000-2000
BC
M. Zvelebil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 25 (2):
178-192(2006/6)
Zusammenfassung
My intention in this paper is to outline the main features and principal
aspects of contact and exchange among the later prehistoric hunter-gatherers
(late Mesolithic and post-Mesolithic) in the Baltic Sea basin, which
covers the southern and eastern reaches of Northern Europe, and to
summarise the main advances in current research. The area broadly
covered includes the Baltic Sea basin that has provided effective
routes for communication between the coastal regions surrounding
the Baltic Sea, central Baltic islands, and regions further away
in the north European Plain, inland regions of Fennoscandia and Russia
that could be reached by an extensive network of major rivers and
lakes. Effective transport for negotiating these routes both in the
summer and winter existed already from the early Mesolithic. Goods
moved along these routes included a wide range of artefacts discussed
in the paper. Geographically, exchange was organised at three levels:
regionally, inter-regionally, and over long distances. Each mode
of exchange was probably organised along different lines socially,
and each served to implement wide-ranging social strategies for the
general purposes of social reproduction, mate exchange and biological
reproduction, as well as the spread of innovations. In the concluding
section, I discuss the nature of contacts and consequences of exchanges
between the early farming communities and the hunter-gathering groups
within the framework of the core-periphery relations.
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%D 2006/6
%J Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
%K Baltic Exchange; Mesolithic; Sea basin
%N 2
%P 178-192
%T Mobility, contact, and exchange in the Baltic Sea basin 6000-2000
BC
%V 25
%X My intention in this paper is to outline the main features and principal
aspects of contact and exchange among the later prehistoric hunter-gatherers
(late Mesolithic and post-Mesolithic) in the Baltic Sea basin, which
covers the southern and eastern reaches of Northern Europe, and to
summarise the main advances in current research. The area broadly
covered includes the Baltic Sea basin that has provided effective
routes for communication between the coastal regions surrounding
the Baltic Sea, central Baltic islands, and regions further away
in the north European Plain, inland regions of Fennoscandia and Russia
that could be reached by an extensive network of major rivers and
lakes. Effective transport for negotiating these routes both in the
summer and winter existed already from the early Mesolithic. Goods
moved along these routes included a wide range of artefacts discussed
in the paper. Geographically, exchange was organised at three levels:
regionally, inter-regionally, and over long distances. Each mode
of exchange was probably organised along different lines socially,
and each served to implement wide-ranging social strategies for the
general purposes of social reproduction, mate exchange and biological
reproduction, as well as the spread of innovations. In the concluding
section, I discuss the nature of contacts and consequences of exchanges
between the early farming communities and the hunter-gathering groups
within the framework of the core-periphery relations.
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abstract = {My intention in this paper is to outline the main features and principal
aspects of contact and exchange among the later prehistoric hunter-gatherers
(late Mesolithic and post-Mesolithic) in the Baltic Sea basin, which
covers the southern and eastern reaches of Northern Europe, and to
summarise the main advances in current research. The area broadly
covered includes the Baltic Sea basin that has provided effective
routes for communication between the coastal regions surrounding
the Baltic Sea, central Baltic islands, and regions further away
in the north European Plain, inland regions of Fennoscandia and Russia
that could be reached by an extensive network of major rivers and
lakes. Effective transport for negotiating these routes both in the
summer and winter existed already from the early Mesolithic. Goods
moved along these routes included a wide range of artefacts discussed
in the paper. Geographically, exchange was organised at three levels:
regionally, inter-regionally, and over long distances. Each mode
of exchange was probably organised along different lines socially,
and each served to implement wide-ranging social strategies for the
general purposes of social reproduction, mate exchange and biological
reproduction, as well as the spread of innovations. In the concluding
section, I discuss the nature of contacts and consequences of exchanges
between the early farming communities and the hunter-gathering groups
within the framework of the core-periphery relations.},
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