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Fishing with Stationary Wooden Structures in Stone Age Denmark: New Evidence from Syltholm Fjord, Southern Lolland
Get PDFAn abundance and diverse range of prehistoric fishing practices was revealed during excavations between 2012 and 2022 at the construction site of the Femern Belt Tunnel, linking the islands of Lolland (Denmark) and Femern (Germany). The waterlogged parts of the prehistoric Syltholm Fjord yielded well preserved organic materials, including the remains of wooden fish traps and weirs, and numerous vertical stakes and posts driven into the former seabed – evidence of long term fishing practices using stationary wooden structures from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age (c. 4700–900 cal BC). Here, we present the results of a detailed study on these stationary wooden fishing structures, making this the most comprehensive and detailed description of prehistoric passive fishing practices in Syltholm Fjord to date. The exceptional scale of the excavated area (57 ha) and abundance of organic materials encountered during excavations provides us with a rare opportunity to identify individual weir systems and information on their construction, maintenance, and use. To contextualise further, we provide an up-to-date compilation of comparable finds in the Danish archaeological record, including a dataset of directly dated specimens, based on both published and unpublished sources. Our results show that stationary wooden fishing structures are an invaluable archaeological resource, and their study, combining landscape reconstruction, ethnographic analogy, and fishing technology, together with artefactual evidence and radiocarbon dating, allows us to reconstruct prehistoric fishing strategies in depth. Due to the long chronology and diversity of the study materials, our results complement previous research on the many nuances and regional specificities of the persistence of fishing practices in the western Baltic Sea over time, despite introductions of new cultures, populations, and livelihoods. Finally, we emphasise that the Neolithisation process in Northern Europe was not as straightforward and uniform in terms of subsistence as commonly assumed
Frederik Næblerød:All walks of Life
No full textFrederik Næblerød er en af Danmarks mest talentfulde kunstnere, kendt for sin eksplosive udvikling siden afgangen fra Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi i 2018. Hans værker og karismatiske personlighed er blevet dokumenteret i bl.a. tv-programmet Kunstnerkolonien, og hans Instagram profil giver et fascinerende indblik i hans kunstneriske univers. Her blandes atelierstemning, musik, maling i spandevis og spontanitet med en energi, der er hektisk, sprudlende og inspirerende
Når ting fortæller historien: - Genstande fra udgravningen på Horsegård i Galten
No full textNøj, for en udgravning. En hel have propfuld af stolpehuller, brønde, gruber,huse, stenlægninger og nedgravede dyr. Fra jernalder til nutid, fra møntertil træskosåler, fra potteskår til blyindfattede ruder og så alt det indimellem.Talrige levede liv på samme plet igennem hundredvis af år har sat sine spor.Bogstaveligt talt. Her skal et udvalg af sporene fra Horsegård præsenteres,så de kan fortælle deres egen historie om gårdliv, rygevaner, ejerskifte og omdengang, der var stil over drukspil
Organizing Warriors in the 6th and 7th century AD:The Evidence of the Stray-finds in East Denmark
No full textLate Germanic Iron Age weapon burials from Bornholm, Denmark, have been used to suggest the presence of a Merovingian inspired organization of warriors including conscripts. This article compares these burials’ inventory, focusing on the first part of the Late Germanic Iron Age (AD 520-630), to the distribution of similar types of metal stray-finds. Mapping the stray-finds from Bornholm indicates the whereabouts of the warriors and it is discussed whether this can contribute to a plausible representation of warriors and a geographicallyrooted organization of warriors. This evidence is tested on equivalent stray-find material from Sjælland and adjacent islands where weapon burials are almost absent. The study shows a difference between the burial inventory and the stray-finds regarding relative numbers of specific object types, and it is clear that the standardized set of weapons originally assumed to picture the conscripted warrior cannot be found
All the way from the Baltic: amber beads from an Iron Age grave at Hama, western Syria
No full textWidening and diversifying trade networks are often cited among the boom and bust of Bronze and Iron Age worlds. The great distances that goods could travel during these periods are exemplified here as the authors describe the spectroscopic identification of Baltic amber beads in an Iron Age cremation grave at Hama in Syria. Yet these beads are not unique in the Near Eastern record; as the authors show, comparable finds and references to amber or amber hues in contemporaneous texts illustrate the high social and economic value of resinous substances—a value based on perceptions of their distant origin
somhca:Self-Organising Maps Coupled with Hierarchical Cluster Analysis
No full textImplements self-organising maps combined with hierarchical cluster analysis (SOM-HCA) for clustering and visualization of high-dimensional data. The package includes functions to estimate the optimal map size based on various quality measures and to generate a model using the selected dimensions. It also performs hierarchical clustering on the map nodes to group similar units
Twenty-six unknown drawings by Jan Luyken
No full textThis paper presents a set of twenty-six previously unknown drawings by Jan Luyken (1649-1712), currently kept in a Danish private collection. The drawings span Luyken’s mature career, from 1698 through 1712, and have until now not been examined or compared to his known œuvre
Kvinder, du bør kende
No full textEn del af serien: Grønlandsk kvindekamp, skrevet af museumsinspektør Ivalo K.B.F. Olsvig fra Nationalmuseet og journalist fra Dagbladet Information Lærke Cramon. Vi fortæller Grønlands historie gennem de kvinder, der formede den. Og vi begynder på bunden af have