Vladimir Lozovski and researches of site Zamostje 2

Lozovskaya, Olga

doi:10.31600/978-5-907053-00-7-2018-12-20

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“…Incisor tools are found across the entire region, from the Early Mesolithic to the Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic, whereas mandible tools are mainly known from the Baltic and the Russian West, where they are abundantly found at Mesolithic sites of all ages (Lozovskaya and Lozovski, 2015; Lozovskaya et al, 2017; Zhilin, 2001, 2020). For Russian contexts alone, Zhilin (2020) reports more than 1400 beaver mandible and incisor tools dated to the Mesolithic, mostly from the key wetland sites.…”

Section: A New Synthesis Of Human-beaver Intersections In the Norther...mentioning

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Human-beaver cohabitation in the Early and Mid-Holocene of Northern Europe: Re-visiting Mesolithic material culture and ecology through a multispecies lens

Hussain,

Brusgaard

2023

The Holocene

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The Eurasian beaver ( Castor fiber) was an important member of Early and Mid-Holocene landscapes and animal communities in Northern Europe. Previous zooarchaeological research has established the alimentary roles of beavers for Mesolithic societies and their importance for fur procurement. In this paper, we develop an integrated biocultural approach to human-beaver interactions, examining the position of humans and beavers in Mesolithic and Early Neolithic multispecies systems. We contextualize beaver landscape agency in hydroactive environments with human behaviour, synthesizing currently available data on mammalian assemblages, ichtyofauna and beaver-related material culture across Northern Europe. This cross-cultural, diachronic analysis reveals previously overlooked facilitations of human behaviour by beaver practices and ecological legacies. We show that long-term trajectories of human-beaver cohabitation differed between northern European regions. While in Southern Scandinavia, human-beaver intersections witnessed major re-organizations during the Mid-Holocene, beavers retained a key role for human societies across Northeastern Europe throughout much of the Holocene and played an important part at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Dutch wetlands. Divergent pathways are also evidenced by Mesolithic beaver-related material culture, highlighting the cultural keystone status of Castor fiber in higher latitude European landscapes. We argue that this keystone status is grounded in the supply of human hunting, fishing, and gathering affordances by the animals, pointing to the generative commensality between Mesolithic foragers and their beaver neighbours. Taken together, our findings demonstrate the importance of the beaver in the making of Early and Mid-Holocene forager societies in Northern Europe and illustrate the fruitfulness of deploying an integrated multispecies approach.

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confidence: 99%

Human-beaver cohabitation in the Early and Mid-Holocene of Northern Europe: Re-visiting Mesolithic material culture and ecology through a multispecies lens

Hussain,

Brusgaard

2023

The Holocene

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“…But due to preservation conditions, excavation possibilities, and regional differences of geo-factors for chance findings, there are great differences in the distribution of objects of the Mesolithic bone and antler industries in Northern Europe. Denmark (Bröndsted 1960;Mathiassen 1948), southern Sweden (Althin 1954), the Baltic countries (Indreko 1948;Rimantienė 1994;Zagorska 1992), the northern Russian plain (Lozovski 1996;Ošibkina 2006), and last but not least northeastern Germany (Gramsch 1973) are rich in such artefacts.…”

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The Mesolithic bone industries of northeast Germany and their geo-archaeological background

Gramsch¹

2020

UuM Steinzeit

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Vladimir Lozovski and researches of site Zamostje 2

Cited by 2 publications

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Human-beaver cohabitation in the Early and Mid-Holocene of Northern Europe: Re-visiting Mesolithic material culture and ecology through a multispecies lens

Human-beaver cohabitation in the Early and Mid-Holocene of Northern Europe: Re-visiting Mesolithic material culture and ecology through a multispecies lens

The Mesolithic bone industries of northeast Germany and their geo-archaeological background

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