Medieval mass trapping of reindeer at the Hardangervidda mountain plateau, South Norway

Indrelid, Svein; Hufthammer, Anne Karin

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2010.09.008

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“…(Indrelid et al 2007;Indrelid and Hufthammer 2011;Blehr 2012 and this study). However, even these test pits were extremely rich in faunal material and considered a solid basis for this study.…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 61%

“…Blehr (2012) uses a Bayesian model based on the same dates and concludes that local hunters used the sites for at least a century until the Black Death abruptly ended the hunting expeditions. Thus, the time period for the mass hunt as proposed by Indrelid and Hufthammer (2011) is too short, as suggested by Blehr. Following Blehr, a Bayesian model was constructed in OxCal for the 18 samples (Bronk Ramsey 2009;Reimer et al 2013), resulting in a period of use of 124-192 years with uncertainties at 68.2% probability, or of 95-240 years (95.4% probability).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In medieval times, reindeer hunting flourished and hunting stations with huts were erected on the shore of several lakes on Hardangervidda. Runic inscriptions found at several locations indicate that the hunt possibly was organised by merchants from the towns (Indrelid 2010;Indrelid and Hufthammer 2011), and may have been connected to the flourishing comb industry in Bergen (Indrelid et al 2007;Indrelid 2010;Røed and Hansen 2015). Runic inscriptions found at several locations indicate that the hunt possibly was organised by merchants from the towns (Indrelid 2010;Indrelid and Hufthammer 2011), and may have been connected to the flourishing comb industry in Bergen (Indrelid et al 2007;Indrelid 2010;Røed and Hansen 2015).…”

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“…Indrelid et al (2007), Hufthammer et al (2011) and Indrelid and Hufthammer (2011) provide a detailed description of the Sumtangen site; it consists of the remains of two huts (Austbu and Vestbu) and several bone middens. Indrelid et al (2007), Hufthammer et al (2011) and Indrelid and Hufthammer (2011) provide a detailed description of the Sumtangen site; it consists of the remains of two huts (Austbu and Vestbu) and several bone middens.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Hardangervidda high mountain plateau in Southern Norway is home to Europe's largest wild living reindeer population (Bevanger and Jordhøy 2004), a population that is nowadays genetically highly influenced by domestic reindeer (Røed et al 2011). Indrelid et al (2007), Indrelid (2010) and Indrelid and Hufthammer (2011) describe the provenance (Fig. Therefore, the reindeer remains from these medieval hunting stations are of utmost importance as a source of information on a truly wild reindeer population, uninfluenced by human interference other than hunting.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Heaps of fascinating fragments: reconstructing a medieval reindeer population based on bone middens from the Hardangervidda high mountain plateau, Norway

Beijersbergen

2016

Acta Zoologica

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Takken Beijersbergen, L.M. 2017. Heaps of fascinating fragments: reconstructing a medieval reindeer population based on bone middens from the Hardangervidda high mountain plateau, Norway. -Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 98: 340-361.The results of a detailed morphological and pathological study on reindeer bones (Rangifer tarandus) from four medieval hunting stations on Hardangervidda are presented. As intensive marrow collecting left almost no bones intact, traditional sexing methods could only sparsely be applied. Alternative methods had to be explored to successfully assign the fragments to a sex. Employing linear discriminant analysis (LDA) on early-and non-fusing skeletal elements, I have shown that (incomplete) calcanei, metapodia and phalanges I and II can be used successfully to assign a specimen to a sex and should no longer be excluded from osteometric analyses. Differences in the demographic compositions of the taphocoenoses lead to the assumption that hunters in the 11th century AD targeted large reindeer bucks, while at the 13th-century sites, the complete biocoenose is represented, albeit in a different ratio. There seems to have been a shift in hunting technique: from selective hunting to mass hunting. Size wise, the reindeer from Hardangervidda were smaller than reindeer from contemporary assemblages from the Dovre area (central Norway), a population that is genetically different. Few pathologically affected bones were encountered in the material, but some cases of infections, bone lesions and a progressed osteosarcoma are described. Liselotte M. Takken Beijersbergen, The Natural History Collections, University Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 98: 340-361 (October 2017) Takken Beijersbergen Heaps of fascinating fragments 1Not including cranium, vertebrae other than atlas and axis, carpalia, tarsalia other than astragalus and calcaneum, and third phalanges.

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confidence: 61%