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ID188969
NOMEEster Oras
PRENOMESEster
SOBRENOMEOras
ASSINATURAORAS E
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Tartu
ORCID0000-0002-7212-629X
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS39
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES126
TOTAL COMO AUTOR39
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2013
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H7
  • Getting a foot in the door

    Open Access•Ester Oras•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2026

    This article gives an overview of the development and the current state of the art of biomolecular archaeology in the three Baltic countries â Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. First, a general background and the emergence of biomolecular archaeology on a global scale are outlined. Thereafter, the key trends in incorporating biomolecular analyses into Baltic archaeological research are provided. Finally, the paper discusses the main opportunities a…

  • ICP‐MS/MS for Strontium Isotope Studies

    Open Access•Päärn Paiste, Raivo Suni et al.•ARTICLE•Geoarchaeology•2026

    Inductively coupled plasma‐tandem mass spectrometry (ICP‐MS/MS) enables nearly interference‐free determination of trace elements in different matrices. Furthermore, its mass resolution, combined with mass‐ and reaction‐filtering, allows the measurement of several isotope systems that are otherwise difficult to analyse due to significant interferences. The 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratio has been widely used in geochronology and geochemistry, increasingly also…

  • Representation of Early Career Academics in Higher Education Governance

    Open Access•Liudvika Leišytė, Christine Cro et al.•ARTICLE•Higher Education Quarterly•2026

    This study investigates the representation of early career academics (ECAs) in higher education governance across nine EU countries. Drawing on cultural and organisational theories and New Public Management literature, the aim is to analyse how national and institutional policies regulate ECAs' representation in institutional decision‐making and how inclusive in terms of gender this representation is in practice. Based on a documentary analysis, …

  • Food Equality

    Open Access•Ester Oras, Mari Tõrv et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Method…•2026•Referências: 10

    Biomolecular archaeology has significantly advanced our understanding of ancient foodways. However, the inevitable methodological biases of those novel methods might give deviating, even contradictory results. This paper highlights the major challenges of, but also potential solutions for, combining and comparing multiproxy dietary data. A rich dataset covering human skeletal remains, pottery, and zooarchaeological records from habitation and bur…

  • An Egyptian Mummified Crocodile from the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra National Preserve (Ukraine)

    Open Access•Yevheniia Yanish, Dario Piombino-Mascali et al.•ARTICLE•Archaeologia Lituana•2025

    This study presents the first examination of an Egyptian mummified crocodile from the collection of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra National Preserve (Ukraine). Archival research established that the specimen was donated to the Archaeological Museum at St. Volodymyr’s University in 1860 by Dr. Joseph Shkuratovsky who likely obtained it in Upper Egypt in the mid-19th century. The mummy had never been studied by Egyptologists, bio-archaeologists, or zoolog…

  • Defining the Estonian strontium isoscape for archeological and paleoecological provenance studies

    Open Access•Raivo Suni, Kalle Kirsimäe et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2025•Citada por: 1

    Strontium isotope analysis has been used in archeology for about 40 years to study the prov­enance and mobility of ancient humans and animals. The interpretation of strontium isotope compositions in archeological materials requires a reference isotopic baseline map that delineates the geographical variation of bioavailable strontium. This paper introduces the first full map of bioavailable strontium in Estonia, based on the 87Sr/86Sr ratio of bio…

  • Supplementary material to

    Open Access•Raivo Suni, Kalle Kirsimäe et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2025

    Supplementary online data include Table 1 detailing the radiocarbon dates associated with Typical Comb Ware in Latvia in the research literature

  • The earliest evidence of blue pigment use in Europe

    Open Access•Isobel Wisher, T Birch et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2025•Referências: 45

    Blue pigments are absent in Palaeolithic art. This has been ascribed to a lack of naturally occurring blue pigments or low visual salience of these hues. Using a suite of archaeometric approaches, the authors identify traces of azurite on a concave stone artefact from the Final Palaeolithic site of Mühlheim-Dietesheim, Germany. This represents the earliest use of blue pigment in Europe. The scarcity of blue in Palaeolithic art, along with later p…

  • Segregated food culture? Bronze Age (1250–500 cal BCE) dietary practices in northern Estonia

    Open Access•Mari Tõrv, Shidong Chen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2025•Citada por: 1•Referências: 7

    Multi-proxy study reveals Bronze Age diet in Estonia was plant-based. • C3 plants were staple food across all social groups. • Meat and fish intake increased after 800 cal BCE. • No dietary differences between stone-cist and hilltop groups. • Regional dietary differences begin to emerge across the Eastern Baltic. The Bronze Age (2000/1750–500 BCE) in the Eastern Baltic has been considered a period for increased social stratification. While previo…

  • Reconstructing infant feeding practices through stable isotope analysis

    Open Access•A Morrone, D Piombino-Mascali et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2025•Referências: 5

  • Dietary Practices of the Gauja Livs

    Open Access•Alise Gunnarssone, Ester Oras et al.•ARTICLE•Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica…•2024•Referências: 9

    This study reports the first comprehensive data on the dietary aspects of Gauja Livs in the 11th–12th century CE. This region is presently lacking in bioarchaeological material (human bones and ancient plant remains), which is typically used for decoding the ancient diet. To tackle this problem pottery fragments from Turaida hillfort and Pūteļi cemetery were studied using Lipid Residue Analysis. Samples included both pottery clay matrix and burnt…

  • Horsemeat consumption in Late Bronze Age Estonia

    Open Access•Eve Rannamäe, Valter Lang et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2024•Citada por: 1

    Horsemeat consumption has been one of the most intriguing questions about ancient dietary practices. Zooarchaeological materials from the Late Bronze Age in Estonia (850â 500 BCE) contain high proportions of the domestic horse (Equus caballus) compared to subsequent periods, leading to debates about the cultural­-economic features of eating horsemeat during this period. One of the assemblages rich in horse remains is from the Iru fortified settle…

  • Dietary stable isotope analysis on fifth–ninth century AD populations of Lepna and Viidumäe, Saaremaa Island, Estonia

    Maris Niinesalu-Moon, Marika Mägi et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Island and Coastal…•2024•Referências: 4

    This paper presents the results of dietary stable isotope analyses performed on Migration Period (450–550 AD) and Pre-Viking Age (550–800 AD) populations of Lepna and Viidumäe, Saaremaa Island, Estonia. To date, research on dietary stable isotope analysis in Estonia has mainly focused on populations from other historical periods with an exclusion of material from the fifth to ninth centuries AD. Moreover, the research has been mainly conducted on…

  • Pre-Roman Iron Age inhumations

    Open Access•Maris Niinesalu-Moon, Keiti Randoja et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2023•Referências: 14

    This article presents the results of a multi-proxy study conducted on a triple burial found at a settlement site at Pärnu Road 41, Tallinn, Estonia, dating to 405â 360 cal BC (Pre-Roman Iron Age). Through archaeological and chemical analyses, including AMS dating, archaeobotany, osteology, stable isotope analysis, lipid analysis, metallography and XRF analysis, this study proves valuable insights into the provenance, diet, and burial practices of…

  • Stone Age imitation of a slotted bone point from Pärnu River (south-western Estonia)

    Open Access•Tõnno Jonuks, Shidong Chen et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2023•Referências: 13

    This is an in-depth study of a mimicked slotted point, carved from a cervid longbone, found in the lower reaches of the Pärnu River. The 3D digital model, created during this study, provides an interactive and innovative tool for studying the object in detail. The AMS dating places the artefact at the very beginning of human habitation in the present-day territory of Estonia. SEM-EDS, ATR-FT-IR and GC-FID/MS analyses demonstrate that this unique …

  • Multi-proxy analysis of starchy plant consumption

    Open Access•Shidong Chen, Kristiina Johanson et al.•ARTICLE•Vegetation History and…•2023•Citada por: 2•Referências: 18

  • The Globular Amphora Culture in the Eastern Baltic

    Gytis Piličiauskas, Raminta Skipitytė et al.•ARTICLE•Acta Archaeologica•2023•Referências: 1

    Until now, Šventoji in northwest Lithuania was considered the most northern site of the Neolithic Globular Amphora Culture (hereafter GAC ; ca. 3400–2500 cal BC ) in Europe. Recently, however, ceramics typologically resembling GAC ware were identified among the materials from the multi-period sites of Abora 1 and Iča in Latvia and further to the north from Tamula in southeast Estonia. Here we present the multi-disciplinary analyses of these ceram…

  • Light Production by Ceramic Using Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers of the Circum-Baltic

    Open Access•H K Robson, Alexandre Lucquin et al.•ARTICLE•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•2022•Referências: 39

    Artificial illumination is a fundamental human need. Burning wood and other materials usually in hearths and fireplaces extended daylight hours, whilst the use of flammable substances in torches offered light on the move. It is increasingly understood that pottery played a role in light production. In this study, we focus on ceramic oval bowls, made and used primarily by hunter-gatherer-fishers of the circum-Baltic over a c. 2000 year period begi…

  • Classification of archaeological adhesives from Eastern Europe and Urals by ATR‐FT‐IR spectroscopy and chemometric analysis

    Open Access•Shidong Chen, Signe Vahur et al.•ARTICLE•Archaeometry•2022•Citada por: 8•Referências: 44

    Attenuated total reflection‐Fourier transform‐infrared spectroscopy (ATR‐FT‐IR) analysis of 100 adhesive samples from different prehistoric composite artefacts, pottery, and amorphous lumps across Eastern Europe and Urals were conducted with the aim to establish a fast analytical screening method for adhesive assignment. The ATR‐FT‐IR analysis allowed the identification of major chemical components of the adhesive samples that were assigned to th…

  • The transmission of pottery technology among prehistoric European hunter-gatherers

    Open Access•E V Dolbunova, Alexandre Lucquin et al.•ARTICLE•Nature Human Behaviour•2022•Citada por: 9•Referências: 74

    Human history has been shaped by global dispersals of technologies, although understanding of what enabled these processes is limited. Here, we explore the behavioural mechanisms that led to the emergence of pottery among hunter-gatherer communities in Europe during the mid-Holocene. Through radiocarbon dating, we propose this dispersal occurred at a far faster rate than previously thought. Chemical characterization of organic residues shows that…

  • In search of Estonia’s earliest chicken

    Open Access•Freydis Ehrlich, Eve Rannamäe et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2021•Referências: 8

    It has been hypothesised that the chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) was introduced to the area of what is now modern-day Estonia around the Pre-Roman or Roman Iron Age. However, none of the earliest chicken bones found in the area had been radiocarbon dated and due to a complex contextual background, the question of its first appearance has been left open. With the aim of finding the earliest evidence for the chicken in Estonia, we looked into t…

  • Fragmented bones tell stories

    Open Access•Anu Lillak, А Лиллак et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2021•Referências: 3

    Cremation as a burial rite has been in use throughout prehistory. The graves as well as their fragmented content are the main informants reflecting the life and death of past communities in specific eras. So far, the studies of cremation graves in the eastern Baltic have mostly focused on reconstructing grave constructions and analysing artefacts. Far less attention has been paid to the skeletal material, especially to their value for reconstruct…

  • Application of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to surface bone changes in paleopathology

    A Morrone, Hembo Pagi et al.•ARTICLE•Anthropologischer Anzeiger•2021

    The analysis of surface bone changes is an essential aspect of the paleopathological examination of skeletal remains from archaeological and forensic contexts, and proper digital imaging is an indispensable aspect of the documentation of bone modifications. This paper evaluates the applicability of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to the study of pathological bone surface changes in human remains. Forty-five samples of human bones and tee…

  • Hunger, disease, and subtle lesions

    Open Access•A Morrone, Mari Tõrv et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2021•Citada por: 5•Referências: 71

    This paper reports a case study of 43 fetuses and perinates from four mass graves and two double burials from the cemetery of St. Jacob in Tartu (SE Estonia). The burials were dated to the 13th-15th centuries AD and located outside the cemetery walls, and likely can be linked to historically recorded episodes of famine and epidemic in medieval Livonia. All individuals belonged to the fetal and perinatal age categories, meaning they were either ab…

  • Hunter-fisher-gatherer pottery production and use at the Neolithic shell-midden of Riņņukalns, Latvia

    Open Access•Michela Spataro, Ester Oras et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2021•Referências: 20

    The shell-midden site of Riņņukalns in northern Latvia offers a rare opportunity to study long-term trends in ceramic production and function at a European hunter-fisher-gatherer site. Riņņukalns was occupied from the sixth millennium BC, with the midden developing from the later fourth millennium. Here, the authors discuss the chaîne opératoire and function of the Riņņukalns material, showing that pottery was used in both the pre-midden and midd…

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  • The adoption of pottery by north-east European hunter-gatherers

    Open Access•Ester Oras, Alexandre Lucquin et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science•2016•Citada por: 32•Referências: 7

  • Social food here and hereafter

    Open Access•Ester Oras, Mari Tõrv et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science•2018•Citada por: 16•Referências: 9

  • Tracing Prehistoric Migration

    Open Access•Ester Oras, Valter Lang et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2016•Citada por: 12

    There have been various explanations in archaeological literature about whether the earliest Bronze Age stone-cist graves and the first Pre-Roman Iron Age tarand graves in Estonia were built by locals or non-locals. As to possible immigrations, the stone-cist graves have been often related to Scandinavian populations, whilst early tarand graves allegedly had roots in eastern directions. The oldest known examples of these cemetery types are at JÃμ…

  • Late Mesolithic Narva Stage in Estonia

    Open Access•Aivar Kriiska, Ester Oras et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2017•Citada por: 10•Referências: 6

    This paper gives a systematized overview of different Narva stage sites in Estonia, describing their artefactual and archaeozoological material, and environmental conditions. We demonstrate the diversity of Narva stage settlement types (sites on coastal river estuaries, coast, coastal lagoons, inland river banks and shores of inland lakes) and economy (marine, terrestrial/inland aquatic and mixed subsistence) in the region. A further site-based d…

  • The transmission of pottery technology among prehistoric European hunter-gatherers

    Open Access•E V Dolbunova, Alexandre Lucquin et al.•ARTICLE•Nature Human Behaviour•2022•Citada por: 9•Referências: 74

    Human history has been shaped by global dispersals of technologies, although understanding of what enabled these processes is limited. Here, we explore the behavioural mechanisms that led to the emergence of pottery among hunter-gatherer communities in Europe during the mid-Holocene. Through radiocarbon dating, we propose this dispersal occurred at a far faster rate than previously thought. Chemical characterization of organic residues shows that…

  • Archaeological science and object biography

    Open Access•Ester Oras, T F G Higham et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2017•Citada por: 9•Referências: 32

  • Classification of archaeological adhesives from Eastern Europe and Urals by ATR‐FT‐IR spectroscopy and chemometric analysis

    Open Access•Shidong Chen, Signe Vahur et al.•ARTICLE•Archaeometry•2022•Citada por: 8•Referências: 44

    Attenuated total reflection‐Fourier transform‐infrared spectroscopy (ATR‐FT‐IR) analysis of 100 adhesive samples from different prehistoric composite artefacts, pottery, and amorphous lumps across Eastern Europe and Urals were conducted with the aim to establish a fast analytical screening method for adhesive assignment. The ATR‐FT‐IR analysis allowed the identification of major chemical components of the adhesive samples that were assigned to th…

  • Early pottery use across the Baltic – A comparative lipid residue study on Ertebølle and Narva ceramics from coastal hunter-gatherer sites in southern Scandinavia, northern Germany and Estonia

    Open Access•Vasiliki Papakosta, Ester Oras et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2019•Citada por: 6•Referências: 19

    The Late Mesolithic Ertebølle and Narva cultures (6th – 5th/4th millennium BC) in the southwest and eastern Baltic, respectively, shared similar vessel types, namely pointed-based pots and oval bowls. As a consequence, this phenomenon raised questions about inter-cultural connections across the Baltic and possible influence for the production of pottery from the Narva to the Ertebølle hunter-gatherers. Whereas the two pottery traditions were show…

  • Isotopic provenancing of the Salme ship burials in Pre-Viking Age Estonia

    Open Access•T D Price, Jüri Peets et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2016•Citada por: 6•Referências: 12

  • Hunger, disease, and subtle lesions

    Open Access•A Morrone, Mari Tõrv et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2021•Citada por: 5•Referências: 71

    This paper reports a case study of 43 fetuses and perinates from four mass graves and two double burials from the cemetery of St. Jacob in Tartu (SE Estonia). The burials were dated to the 13th-15th centuries AD and located outside the cemetery walls, and likely can be linked to historically recorded episodes of famine and epidemic in medieval Livonia. All individuals belonged to the fetal and perinatal age categories, meaning they were either ab…

  • Cooking for the Living and the Dead

    Open Access•Alise Gunnarssone, Ester Oras et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2020•Citada por: 5•Referências: 6

    This paper is intended as a contribution to the understanding of Late Iron Age food consumption patterns and dietary preferences along the lower course of the River Daugava. The multidisciplinary study analysed the ceramic vessels from the 11thâ 13th century RauÅ¡i settlement and cemetery. We used lipid residue analysis employing GC-MS (gas chromatography-mass spectrometry), GC-C-IRMS (gas-chromatography-combustion-isotope ratio mass spectrometry…

  • Multi-proxy analysis of starchy plant consumption

    Open Access•Shidong Chen, Kristiina Johanson et al.•ARTICLE•Vegetation History and…•2023•Citada por: 2•Referências: 18

  • Multi-method Analysis of Avian Eggs as Grave Goods

    Tõnno Jonuks, Ester Oras et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Archaeology•2017•Citada por: 2•Referências: 5

    Eggshells are unusual finds in the Iron Age of eastern Europe (500 BC–1200 AD) deserving extra attention in terms of analysis as well as interpretation. This paper discusses two rare eggshell finds, discovered in female burials at the conversion period (12th–13th century AD) cemetery at Kukruse, NE Estonia. Our multianalytical study combining FT-IR, SEM(-EDS), microscopy and ZooMS provides an overview of methods applicable for identifying egg spe…

  • Defining the Estonian strontium isoscape for archeological and paleoecological provenance studies

    Open Access•Raivo Suni, Kalle Kirsimäe et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2025•Citada por: 1

    Strontium isotope analysis has been used in archeology for about 40 years to study the prov­enance and mobility of ancient humans and animals. The interpretation of strontium isotope compositions in archeological materials requires a reference isotopic baseline map that delineates the geographical variation of bioavailable strontium. This paper introduces the first full map of bioavailable strontium in Estonia, based on the 87Sr/86Sr ratio of bio…

  • Segregated food culture? Bronze Age (1250–500 cal BCE) dietary practices in northern Estonia

    Open Access•Mari Tõrv, Shidong Chen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2025•Citada por: 1•Referências: 7

    Multi-proxy study reveals Bronze Age diet in Estonia was plant-based. • C3 plants were staple food across all social groups. • Meat and fish intake increased after 800 cal BCE. • No dietary differences between stone-cist and hilltop groups. • Regional dietary differences begin to emerge across the Eastern Baltic. The Bronze Age (2000/1750–500 BCE) in the Eastern Baltic has been considered a period for increased social stratification. While previo…

  • Horsemeat consumption in Late Bronze Age Estonia

    Open Access•Eve Rannamäe, Valter Lang et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2024•Citada por: 1

    Horsemeat consumption has been one of the most intriguing questions about ancient dietary practices. Zooarchaeological materials from the Late Bronze Age in Estonia (850â 500 BCE) contain high proportions of the domestic horse (Equus caballus) compared to subsequent periods, leading to debates about the cultural­-economic features of eating horsemeat during this period. One of the assemblages rich in horse remains is from the Iru fortified settle…

  • Materiality of Religion

    Open Access•Tõnno Jonuks, Ester Oras et al.•ARTICLE•Folklore Electronic Journal of…•2013•Citada por: 1

    In the following, an overview will be given about the progress of a three-year project, the purpose of which was to map and study religion-related objects in Estonian archaeology collections and to discuss the terminology for the archaeology of religion. As a result, a database has been created, consisting of descriptions of over 2000 objects across Estonia, which can be related, one way or another, with religion. An additional outcome of the pro…

  • East Baltic Middle Iron Age Wealth Deposits in Burial Areas

    Open Access•Ester Oras•ARTICLE•Archaeologia BALTICA•2013

    This article provides an example of how variable the uses of and practices in prehistoric burial monuments can be. The concept of ‘wealth deposits’ is introduced, which arguably helps to define the variety of intentionally concealed artefact deposits as a whole. An emphasis is put on deposits in burial areas. It is shown that the depositional practices in burial areas vary considerably in the three Baltic countries, and we can definitely talk abo…

  • Sacrifice or Offering

    Open Access•Ester Oras•ARTICLE•Folklore Electronic Journal of…•2013

    This article analyses the concepts of sacrifice and offering, with a further aim to discuss how to decode and differentiate these practices in archaeological material.The main criteria for distinguishing sacrifice and offering from anthropology and comparative religious studies are presented.The focal points are the relationship between sacrifice and offering, questions of linguistic preferences, and qualitative criteria such as concepts of value…

  • Materiality of Religion

    Open Access•Tõnno Jonuks, Ester Oras et al.•ARTICLE•Folklore Electronic Journal of…•2013•Citada por: 1

    In the following, an overview will be given about the progress of a three-year project, the purpose of which was to map and study religion-related objects in Estonian archaeology collections and to discuss the terminology for the archaeology of religion. As a result, a database has been created, consisting of descriptions of over 2000 objects across Estonia, which can be related, one way or another, with religion. An additional outcome of the pro…

  • Tracing Prehistoric Migration

    Open Access•Ester Oras, Valter Lang et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2016•Citada por: 12

    There have been various explanations in archaeological literature about whether the earliest Bronze Age stone-cist graves and the first Pre-Roman Iron Age tarand graves in Estonia were built by locals or non-locals. As to possible immigrations, the stone-cist graves have been often related to Scandinavian populations, whilst early tarand graves allegedly had roots in eastern directions. The oldest known examples of these cemetery types are at JÃμ…

  • The adoption of pottery by north-east European hunter-gatherers

    Open Access•Ester Oras, Alexandre Lucquin et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science•2016•Citada por: 32•Referências: 7

  • Isotopic provenancing of the Salme ship burials in Pre-Viking Age Estonia

    Open Access•T D Price, Jüri Peets et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2016•Citada por: 6•Referências: 12

  • Multi-method Analysis of Avian Eggs as Grave Goods

    Tõnno Jonuks, Ester Oras et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Archaeology•2017•Citada por: 2•Referências: 5

    Eggshells are unusual finds in the Iron Age of eastern Europe (500 BC–1200 AD) deserving extra attention in terms of analysis as well as interpretation. This paper discusses two rare eggshell finds, discovered in female burials at the conversion period (12th–13th century AD) cemetery at Kukruse, NE Estonia. Our multianalytical study combining FT-IR, SEM(-EDS), microscopy and ZooMS provides an overview of methods applicable for identifying egg spe…

  • Late Mesolithic Narva Stage in Estonia

    Open Access•Aivar Kriiska, Ester Oras et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2017•Citada por: 10•Referências: 6

    This paper gives a systematized overview of different Narva stage sites in Estonia, describing their artefactual and archaeozoological material, and environmental conditions. We demonstrate the diversity of Narva stage settlement types (sites on coastal river estuaries, coast, coastal lagoons, inland river banks and shores of inland lakes) and economy (marine, terrestrial/inland aquatic and mixed subsistence) in the region. A further site-based d…

  • Archaeological science and object biography

    Open Access•Ester Oras, T F G Higham et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2017•Citada por: 9•Referências: 32

  • Kohtla-Vanaküla Weapons and Tools Deposit

    Open Access•Ester Oras, Aivar Kriiska et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2018

    Kohtla sacrificial site is a unique deposit of Iron Age weapons and tools concealed in watery context, located in north-eastern Estonia. It was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2013 and thoroughly studied by archaeologists in 2013 and 2014. The two fieldwork seasons resulted in a collection of artefacts and their fragments from the total of at least 400 initial objects. As a result, the Kohtla find is the largest of its kind in Estonia and se…

  • Spearheads From Kohtla-Vanaküla Find

    Open Access•Andres Tvauri, Ester Oras et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2018

    During the investigations of Kohtla-VanakÃ1⁄4la, 140 spearheads or fragments of spearhead blades were collected. All spearheads from Kohtla are socketed and have a pointed-oval-shaped blade, only four examples are rhomboid. Based on radiocarbon dates the Kohtla spearheads most likely date from the Roman Iron Age. Kunda and Alulinna wealth deposits from north-eastern Estonia contain spearhead assemblages most similar to the ones from Kohtla. The e…

  • Social food here and hereafter

    Open Access•Ester Oras, Mari Tõrv et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science•2018•Citada por: 16•Referências: 9

  • Early pottery use across the Baltic – A comparative lipid residue study on Ertebølle and Narva ceramics from coastal hunter-gatherer sites in southern Scandinavia, northern Germany and Estonia

    Open Access•Vasiliki Papakosta, Ester Oras et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2019•Citada por: 6•Referências: 19

    The Late Mesolithic Ertebølle and Narva cultures (6th – 5th/4th millennium BC) in the southwest and eastern Baltic, respectively, shared similar vessel types, namely pointed-based pots and oval bowls. As a consequence, this phenomenon raised questions about inter-cultural connections across the Baltic and possible influence for the production of pottery from the Narva to the Ertebølle hunter-gatherers. Whereas the two pottery traditions were show…

  • Cooking for the Living and the Dead

    Open Access•Alise Gunnarssone, Ester Oras et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2020•Citada por: 5•Referências: 6

    This paper is intended as a contribution to the understanding of Late Iron Age food consumption patterns and dietary preferences along the lower course of the River Daugava. The multidisciplinary study analysed the ceramic vessels from the 11thâ 13th century RauÅ¡i settlement and cemetery. We used lipid residue analysis employing GC-MS (gas chromatography-mass spectrometry), GC-C-IRMS (gas-chromatography-combustion-isotope ratio mass spectrometry…

  • In search of Estonia’s earliest chicken

    Open Access•Freydis Ehrlich, Eve Rannamäe et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2021•Referências: 8

    It has been hypothesised that the chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) was introduced to the area of what is now modern-day Estonia around the Pre-Roman or Roman Iron Age. However, none of the earliest chicken bones found in the area had been radiocarbon dated and due to a complex contextual background, the question of its first appearance has been left open. With the aim of finding the earliest evidence for the chicken in Estonia, we looked into t…

  • Fragmented bones tell stories

    Open Access•Anu Lillak, А Лиллак et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2021•Referências: 3

    Cremation as a burial rite has been in use throughout prehistory. The graves as well as their fragmented content are the main informants reflecting the life and death of past communities in specific eras. So far, the studies of cremation graves in the eastern Baltic have mostly focused on reconstructing grave constructions and analysing artefacts. Far less attention has been paid to the skeletal material, especially to their value for reconstruct…

  • Application of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to surface bone changes in paleopathology

    A Morrone, Hembo Pagi et al.•ARTICLE•Anthropologischer Anzeiger•2021

    The analysis of surface bone changes is an essential aspect of the paleopathological examination of skeletal remains from archaeological and forensic contexts, and proper digital imaging is an indispensable aspect of the documentation of bone modifications. This paper evaluates the applicability of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to the study of pathological bone surface changes in human remains. Forty-five samples of human bones and tee…

  • Hunger, disease, and subtle lesions

    Open Access•A Morrone, Mari Tõrv et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2021•Citada por: 5•Referências: 71

    This paper reports a case study of 43 fetuses and perinates from four mass graves and two double burials from the cemetery of St. Jacob in Tartu (SE Estonia). The burials were dated to the 13th-15th centuries AD and located outside the cemetery walls, and likely can be linked to historically recorded episodes of famine and epidemic in medieval Livonia. All individuals belonged to the fetal and perinatal age categories, meaning they were either ab…

  • Hunter-fisher-gatherer pottery production and use at the Neolithic shell-midden of Riņņukalns, Latvia

    Open Access•Michela Spataro, Ester Oras et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2021•Referências: 20

    The shell-midden site of Riņņukalns in northern Latvia offers a rare opportunity to study long-term trends in ceramic production and function at a European hunter-fisher-gatherer site. Riņņukalns was occupied from the sixth millennium BC, with the midden developing from the later fourth millennium. Here, the authors discuss the chaîne opératoire and function of the Riņņukalns material, showing that pottery was used in both the pre-midden and midd…

  • Light Production by Ceramic Using Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers of the Circum-Baltic

    Open Access•H K Robson, Alexandre Lucquin et al.•ARTICLE•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•2022•Referências: 39

    Artificial illumination is a fundamental human need. Burning wood and other materials usually in hearths and fireplaces extended daylight hours, whilst the use of flammable substances in torches offered light on the move. It is increasingly understood that pottery played a role in light production. In this study, we focus on ceramic oval bowls, made and used primarily by hunter-gatherer-fishers of the circum-Baltic over a c. 2000 year period begi…

  • Classification of archaeological adhesives from Eastern Europe and Urals by ATR‐FT‐IR spectroscopy and chemometric analysis

    Open Access•Shidong Chen, Signe Vahur et al.•ARTICLE•Archaeometry•2022•Citada por: 8•Referências: 44

    Attenuated total reflection‐Fourier transform‐infrared spectroscopy (ATR‐FT‐IR) analysis of 100 adhesive samples from different prehistoric composite artefacts, pottery, and amorphous lumps across Eastern Europe and Urals were conducted with the aim to establish a fast analytical screening method for adhesive assignment. The ATR‐FT‐IR analysis allowed the identification of major chemical components of the adhesive samples that were assigned to th…

  • The transmission of pottery technology among prehistoric European hunter-gatherers

    Open Access•E V Dolbunova, Alexandre Lucquin et al.•ARTICLE•Nature Human Behaviour•2022•Citada por: 9•Referências: 74

    Human history has been shaped by global dispersals of technologies, although understanding of what enabled these processes is limited. Here, we explore the behavioural mechanisms that led to the emergence of pottery among hunter-gatherer communities in Europe during the mid-Holocene. Through radiocarbon dating, we propose this dispersal occurred at a far faster rate than previously thought. Chemical characterization of organic residues shows that…

  • Pre-Roman Iron Age inhumations

    Open Access•Maris Niinesalu-Moon, Keiti Randoja et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2023•Referências: 14

    This article presents the results of a multi-proxy study conducted on a triple burial found at a settlement site at Pärnu Road 41, Tallinn, Estonia, dating to 405â 360 cal BC (Pre-Roman Iron Age). Through archaeological and chemical analyses, including AMS dating, archaeobotany, osteology, stable isotope analysis, lipid analysis, metallography and XRF analysis, this study proves valuable insights into the provenance, diet, and burial practices of…

  • Stone Age imitation of a slotted bone point from Pärnu River (south-western Estonia)

    Open Access•Tõnno Jonuks, Shidong Chen et al.•ARTICLE•Estonian Journal of Archaeology•2023•Referências: 13

    This is an in-depth study of a mimicked slotted point, carved from a cervid longbone, found in the lower reaches of the Pärnu River. The 3D digital model, created during this study, provides an interactive and innovative tool for studying the object in detail. The AMS dating places the artefact at the very beginning of human habitation in the present-day territory of Estonia. SEM-EDS, ATR-FT-IR and GC-FID/MS analyses demonstrate that this unique …

  • Multi-proxy analysis of starchy plant consumption

    Open Access•Shidong Chen, Kristiina Johanson et al.•ARTICLE•Vegetation History and…•2023•Citada por: 2•Referências: 18

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