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The Mesolithic inhumation at Brunstad - A two-step multidisciplinary excavation method enables rare insights into hunter-gatherer mortuary practice in Norway
Stockholms universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens kultur.
Antal upphovsmän: 42019 (Engelska)Ingår i: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, ISSN 2352-409X, E-ISSN 2352-4103, Vol. 23, s. 662-673Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

The Mesolithic burial from Brunstad, Vestfold, Eastern Norway, dating to c. 5900 cal BC, represents rare evidence of Mesolithic mortuary practice in Norway. While Mesolithic settlement finds are abundant in the region, evidence of mortuary ritual is virtually absent in the record. In this article we present the method and the results of the multidisciplinary excavation, on-site and in the laboratory. The challenging Brunstad find was excavated in two steps, and later reconstructed, involving osteology, 3D photogrammetry and conservation. Moreover, the burial is discussed in its local, regional and supra-regional context. While the inhumation of an adult individual in a flexed body position is rare in its regional context, it exhibits typical features known from Mesolithic graves in Scandinavia as well as from other parts of Europe. These include the shore-based island location and proximity to a settlement site, the body position, as well as certain features of mortuary ritual. In the light of Mesolithic mortuary practices in Scandinavia and the Baltic region, from where many Mesolithic graves are known, we suggest that Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in Eastern Norway and the Skagerrak region handled and disposed of their dead in various ways, some of which might not have left archaeological traces. We conclude that the Brunstad grave represents a distinct mode of burial at the time.

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2019. Vol. 23, s. 662-673
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Inhumation, Mesolithic, Norway, Osteology, 3D photogrammetry, Flexed body position, Mortuary practice
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-168450DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.11.025ISI: 000462119900057OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-168450DiVA, id: diva2:1313265
Tillgänglig från: 2019-05-02 Skapad: 2019-05-02 Senast uppdaterad: 2022-02-26Bibliografiskt granskad

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