Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14732971.2022.2140893
W. Out, L. Amkreutz, W. A. Casparie
ABSTRACT This paper concerns the spatial distribution of charcoal and uncarbonized wood at the Dutch Late Neolithic wetland site of Hekelingen III, dating to c. 2900–2500 BCE, where a rescue excavation in 1980 revealed occupation units that were intermittently in use during three phases. While earlier published archaeobotanical data from Hekelingen III included only a list of charcoal identifications, rediscovered documentation from the 1980s now allows contextualization of the charcoal data. In addition, the spatial distribution of both the charcoal and uncarbonized wood data is presented for the first time. With few exceptions, the charcoal and wood spatial data indicate continuity of wood use and site function through space and time.
{"title":"Spatial Analysis of Charcoal and Wood: The Case Study of the Late Neolithic Site of Hekelingen III, the Netherlands (2900–2500 BCE)","authors":"W. Out, L. Amkreutz, W. A. Casparie","doi":"10.1080/14732971.2022.2140893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14732971.2022.2140893","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper concerns the spatial distribution of charcoal and uncarbonized wood at the Dutch Late Neolithic wetland site of Hekelingen III, dating to c. 2900–2500 BCE, where a rescue excavation in 1980 revealed occupation units that were intermittently in use during three phases. While earlier published archaeobotanical data from Hekelingen III included only a list of charcoal identifications, rediscovered documentation from the 1980s now allows contextualization of the charcoal data. In addition, the spatial distribution of both the charcoal and uncarbonized wood data is presented for the first time. With few exceptions, the charcoal and wood spatial data indicate continuity of wood use and site function through space and time.","PeriodicalId":37928,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Wetland Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45143212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14732971.2023.2189561
A. Dowsett, K. Krawiec, T. Hill, E. Allison, J. Whittaker
ABSTRACT The Willingdon Levels hold some of the best-preserved prehistoric archaeological and palaeoenvironmental remains in south-east England. This study aims to characterise the previously unexplored coastal limits of the Willingdon Peat and compare the chronology with known sites. The degree of anthropogenic influence on vegetation cover in prehistory is of significant interest to archaeologists, and this paper aims to strengthen the case for human-induced landscape alteration surrounding the Willingdon Levels in the Bronze Age. Lithological, palynological, entomological, ostracod, foraminifera, diatom and radiocarbon analyses were applied to a sequence of deposits at Seaside Recreation Ground. This paper palaeoenvironmentally reconstructs the coastal edge of the Willingdon wetland and proposes a timing for the main period of peat initiation that occurred across the Levels. A decline in woodland taxa and the presence of cereal pollen allude to human presence in the landscape. The results have contributed to the Willingdon Levels modelling project.
{"title":"Seaside Recreation Ground: A Multi-Proxy Palaeoenvironmental Investigation on the Coastal Edge of the Willingdon Levels, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK","authors":"A. Dowsett, K. Krawiec, T. Hill, E. Allison, J. Whittaker","doi":"10.1080/14732971.2023.2189561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14732971.2023.2189561","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Willingdon Levels hold some of the best-preserved prehistoric archaeological and palaeoenvironmental remains in south-east England. This study aims to characterise the previously unexplored coastal limits of the Willingdon Peat and compare the chronology with known sites. The degree of anthropogenic influence on vegetation cover in prehistory is of significant interest to archaeologists, and this paper aims to strengthen the case for human-induced landscape alteration surrounding the Willingdon Levels in the Bronze Age. Lithological, palynological, entomological, ostracod, foraminifera, diatom and radiocarbon analyses were applied to a sequence of deposits at Seaside Recreation Ground. This paper palaeoenvironmentally reconstructs the coastal edge of the Willingdon wetland and proposes a timing for the main period of peat initiation that occurred across the Levels. A decline in woodland taxa and the presence of cereal pollen allude to human presence in the landscape. The results have contributed to the Willingdon Levels modelling project.","PeriodicalId":37928,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Wetland Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42638978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14732971.2021.1973778
Daniel Groß, Ilka Sophia Henke, H. Lübke, J. Meadows, U. Schmölcke
ABSTRACT Archaeological research at ancient Lake Duvensee began almost 100 years ago and has recently revealed another early Holocene site, Duvensee WP 10, which was excavated from 2016 to 2020. Here, we will present the first results of the investigations. The site shows several characteristics known from other sites within the area. However, it is noteworthy that, in comparison to the other local campsites, several discarded animal bones were found – an archaeological find group that is almost lacking in the micro-region. Dense scatters of flint artefacts and hazelnuts represent the majority of the find spectrum and indicate a mainly undisturbed, single-phased site as corroborated by the radiocarbon dating and the stratigraphy. Furthermore, the results show that the lake level at ancient lake Duvensee must have dropped significantly shortly after the occupation of Duvensee WP 10 and that people used the site for processing hunted animals, artefact production, and hazelnut roasting.
{"title":"Duvensee WP 10 – an Early Mesolithic Site at Ancient Lake Duvensee, Germany","authors":"Daniel Groß, Ilka Sophia Henke, H. Lübke, J. Meadows, U. Schmölcke","doi":"10.1080/14732971.2021.1973778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14732971.2021.1973778","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Archaeological research at ancient Lake Duvensee began almost 100 years ago and has recently revealed another early Holocene site, Duvensee WP 10, which was excavated from 2016 to 2020. Here, we will present the first results of the investigations. The site shows several characteristics known from other sites within the area. However, it is noteworthy that, in comparison to the other local campsites, several discarded animal bones were found – an archaeological find group that is almost lacking in the micro-region. Dense scatters of flint artefacts and hazelnuts represent the majority of the find spectrum and indicate a mainly undisturbed, single-phased site as corroborated by the radiocarbon dating and the stratigraphy. Furthermore, the results show that the lake level at ancient lake Duvensee must have dropped significantly shortly after the occupation of Duvensee WP 10 and that people used the site for processing hunted animals, artefact production, and hazelnut roasting.","PeriodicalId":37928,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Wetland Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42787824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/14732971.2020.1800281
C. Richard Bates, M. Bates, B. Crawford, A. Sanmark, J. Whittaker
ABSTRACT Norse place-names for farms, individual landscape features and general landscape areas are ubiquitous throughout the Orkney Islands. These have an origin during the mediaeval period AD790–1350 when Orkney was ruled by Scandinavian earls. The oldest referenced maps for the parish of Harray (West Mainland, Orkney) suggests that in the past significant waterways crossed wetlands extending between the Loch of Harray and Houseby in an area associated with the earldom power base at Birsay. Subsequent drainage projects, changes in climate and sea level have since resulted in the loss of the waterways. An investigation of the wetlands using geophysical and geological analysis provided a reconstruction of the palaeo-environments. Comparison with place-names of significance allowed interpretation of possible routeways along navigable waters by shallow-draught Viking-Age vessels. The results allow for re-drawing the map of Norse Orkney and postulation of produce transfer corridors from estates in the south to the power centre at Birsay.
{"title":"The Norse Waterways of West Mainland Orkney, Scotland","authors":"C. Richard Bates, M. Bates, B. Crawford, A. Sanmark, J. Whittaker","doi":"10.1080/14732971.2020.1800281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14732971.2020.1800281","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Norse place-names for farms, individual landscape features and general landscape areas are ubiquitous throughout the Orkney Islands. These have an origin during the mediaeval period AD790–1350 when Orkney was ruled by Scandinavian earls. The oldest referenced maps for the parish of Harray (West Mainland, Orkney) suggests that in the past significant waterways crossed wetlands extending between the Loch of Harray and Houseby in an area associated with the earldom power base at Birsay. Subsequent drainage projects, changes in climate and sea level have since resulted in the loss of the waterways. An investigation of the wetlands using geophysical and geological analysis provided a reconstruction of the palaeo-environments. Comparison with place-names of significance allowed interpretation of possible routeways along navigable waters by shallow-draught Viking-Age vessels. The results allow for re-drawing the map of Norse Orkney and postulation of produce transfer corridors from estates in the south to the power centre at Birsay.","PeriodicalId":37928,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Wetland Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14732971.2020.1800281","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59825189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/14732971.2021.1930775
Michael J. Stratigos
ABSTRACT This paper presents a new model for the palaeogeography of an important archaeological region in northern Scotland – the former Loch Spynie, Moray. The method employed refines existing glacio-isostatic adjustment and relative sea-level models for the Holocene with open data sources of geomorphological, geotechnical and archaeological data to constrain the proposed former extent of marine, estuarine and other wetland environment through time. The study area is shown to be an important isolation basin that is highly likely to preserve dateable relative sea-level index points. The resulting palaeogeographic model for the former Loch Spynie estuary is then used to develop an archaeological narrative of coastal and maritime activity in later prehistory critiquing and supporting an emergent paradigm in understanding later prehistory in northern Scotland. This study demonstrates how it is possible to develop palaeogeographic models at scales useful for site-based archaeological interpretation bridging a problematic gap in archaeological narratives.
{"title":"A Model of Coastal Wetland Palaeogeography and Archaeological Narratives: Loch Spynie, Northern Scotland","authors":"Michael J. Stratigos","doi":"10.1080/14732971.2021.1930775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14732971.2021.1930775","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper presents a new model for the palaeogeography of an important archaeological region in northern Scotland – the former Loch Spynie, Moray. The method employed refines existing glacio-isostatic adjustment and relative sea-level models for the Holocene with open data sources of geomorphological, geotechnical and archaeological data to constrain the proposed former extent of marine, estuarine and other wetland environment through time. The study area is shown to be an important isolation basin that is highly likely to preserve dateable relative sea-level index points. The resulting palaeogeographic model for the former Loch Spynie estuary is then used to develop an archaeological narrative of coastal and maritime activity in later prehistory critiquing and supporting an emergent paradigm in understanding later prehistory in northern Scotland. This study demonstrates how it is possible to develop palaeogeographic models at scales useful for site-based archaeological interpretation bridging a problematic gap in archaeological narratives.","PeriodicalId":37928,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Wetland Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14732971.2021.1930775","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43627213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-12DOI: 10.1080/14732971.2020.1776495
Svein Vatsvåg Nielsen, Per Persson
ABSTRACT In 1931, several osseous and lithic artefacts, as well as fish and whalebones, were discovered in the wetland at the Jortveit farm in Southern Norway. In 2018–19, a small-scale excavation at the original find location took place and a series of AMS-dates were produced. The excavation identified a mud profile with exceptional preservation conditions. At ∼125–130 cm depth, the mud contained unburnt fish and whale bones, burnt wooden sticks and lithic artefacts. AMS-dates of stray finds and samples retrieved during the excavation date to the period roughly between 3700–2500 cal BCE, i.e. Scandinavian Early and Middle Neolithic Periods. Nearly all bones belong to the Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus). The results are compared to local climate and landscape reconstructions, and the question of marine adaptation in the Neolithic is discussed. We find that the Jortveit site represented a patch in the landscape for specialized marine adaptation in the Neolithic.
{"title":"The Jortveit farm wetland: A Neolithic fishing site on the Skagerrak coast, Norway","authors":"Svein Vatsvåg Nielsen, Per Persson","doi":"10.1080/14732971.2020.1776495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14732971.2020.1776495","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 1931, several osseous and lithic artefacts, as well as fish and whalebones, were discovered in the wetland at the Jortveit farm in Southern Norway. In 2018–19, a small-scale excavation at the original find location took place and a series of AMS-dates were produced. The excavation identified a mud profile with exceptional preservation conditions. At ∼125–130 cm depth, the mud contained unburnt fish and whale bones, burnt wooden sticks and lithic artefacts. AMS-dates of stray finds and samples retrieved during the excavation date to the period roughly between 3700–2500 cal BCE, i.e. Scandinavian Early and Middle Neolithic Periods. Nearly all bones belong to the Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus). The results are compared to local climate and landscape reconstructions, and the question of marine adaptation in the Neolithic is discussed. We find that the Jortveit site represented a patch in the landscape for specialized marine adaptation in the Neolithic.","PeriodicalId":37928,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Wetland Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14732971.2020.1776495","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41545532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14732971.2020.1831265
M. Giles
ABSTRACT This afterword presents a personal reflection both on the papers in the Journal of Wetland Archaeology’s Special Edition on Bog Bodies, as well as the wider scientific and cultural value of these remains. It points to new avenues of research and collaboration, emphasises the need for international standards and guides for future discoveries, and promotes the value of more sustainable research using existing museum and archival material. Finally, it celebrates their ongoing role as a source of inspiration in contemporary literature, pointing to the importance of the ‘afterlives’ of such remains.
{"title":"JWA Bog Bodies Special Edition: Afterword","authors":"M. Giles","doi":"10.1080/14732971.2020.1831265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14732971.2020.1831265","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This afterword presents a personal reflection both on the papers in the Journal of Wetland Archaeology’s Special Edition on Bog Bodies, as well as the wider scientific and cultural value of these remains. It points to new avenues of research and collaboration, emphasises the need for international standards and guides for future discoveries, and promotes the value of more sustainable research using existing museum and archival material. Finally, it celebrates their ongoing role as a source of inspiration in contemporary literature, pointing to the importance of the ‘afterlives’ of such remains.","PeriodicalId":37928,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Wetland Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14732971.2020.1831265","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44306254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14732971.2020.1830622
C. Fredengren, J. Karlsson
ABSTRACT Bog bodies are rare finds occasionally revealed in connection with peat-cutting or excavation of drains. However, the record might be richer than formerly acknowledged, as earlier finds may survive as non-identified parts of museum collections, and have, therefore, been missed by researchers. This paper presents osteological finds from Mossberga bog on the island of Öland which were rediscovered in museum storage recently. It provides a case study that traces how the archaeological and antiquarian processes ‘tie together’ and ‘cut apart’ materials in what could be called museum ecologies. The assemblage includes human and non-human remains from a bog site and investigates how wetland archaeology is taken from excavation into the public domain. The relationships around this find are folded out, using radiocarbon dating, osteological analysis, archival materials and landscape descriptions to tie together and problematize stories of how the practice of depositing bodies in wetlands stretched across centuries.
{"title":"Mossberga Mosse: Excavating the Archives and Tracing Museum Ecologies","authors":"C. Fredengren, J. Karlsson","doi":"10.1080/14732971.2020.1830622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14732971.2020.1830622","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Bog bodies are rare finds occasionally revealed in connection with peat-cutting or excavation of drains. However, the record might be richer than formerly acknowledged, as earlier finds may survive as non-identified parts of museum collections, and have, therefore, been missed by researchers. This paper presents osteological finds from Mossberga bog on the island of Öland which were rediscovered in museum storage recently. It provides a case study that traces how the archaeological and antiquarian processes ‘tie together’ and ‘cut apart’ materials in what could be called museum ecologies. The assemblage includes human and non-human remains from a bog site and investigates how wetland archaeology is taken from excavation into the public domain. The relationships around this find are folded out, using radiocarbon dating, osteological analysis, archival materials and landscape descriptions to tie together and problematize stories of how the practice of depositing bodies in wetlands stretched across centuries.","PeriodicalId":37928,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Wetland Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14732971.2020.1830622","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45797369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14732971.2020.1776487
M. Hitchcock
ABSTRACT The decay-halting effects of the Sphagnum moss that accumulates in the peat bogs of Northern Europe have preserved some of the most striking and provocative organic archaeological material from the ancient past, inspiring authors from a wide variety of disciplines. The botanist Harry Godwin envisaged the bog as an archive that removes its botanical and archaeological contents from the usual processes of time, delivering them to us as precious and unique repositories of information about the past. This paper reconsiders this archival metaphor from an archaeological perspective, with a particular focus on human remains. With the British Museum’s Lindow Man archive as a case study, it will explore some of the archivization processes that bog bodies go through and reflect on their epistemic significance for archaeology.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14732971.2020.1826196
Ticca M A Ogilvie
ABSTRACT The conservation of a bog body is complex and a challenge for all those involved. A substantial list of requirements needs to be pulled together by the conservator in designing an effective and appropriate conservation strategy for these rare and important finds. Past treatments have often been reactive and constrained by lack of research and testing. Bog body materials are not yet sufficiently characterized and the level of access for which we are designing conservation treatments has not been comprehensively anticipated. This paper examines some of the questions conservators will need answered before they can design more successful long-term strategies for the conservation of bog bodies, and makes an attempt to answer them. In doing so, it places in context past treatments and hopes to stimulate future research that may aid in improving the preservation of bog bodies for the future.
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