Sönke Hartz

Biographic Data

ID5004743
NAMESönke Hartz
GIVEN NAMESSönke
FAMILY NAMEHartz
SIGNATUREHARTZ S
AFFILIATIONSStiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS169
WORKS AS AUTHOR20
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX8

  • The Use of Roots and Burrs for Hafting Non-Shaft-Hole Adzeheads by Mesolithic and Neolithic Hunter-Fisher-Gatherers in Europe

    Open AccessJudith M Grünberg, Olga Lozovskaya et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Prehistoric…2025References: 11

    Mesolithic hunter-fisher-gatherers manufactured many kinds of composite tools, among them a variety of adzes and axes with antler, bone, stone or wood heads and other insets. The adzes and axes were constructed from two or three parts, sometimes including a fixed or a separate one- or two-part intermediate piece between handle and blade. These sleeves were made of different raw materials and shapes. This paper presents new results on wooden sleev…

  • The First of Their Kind—The Significance of Sheep and Goat in the Neolithization Process of Northern Central Europe

    Open AccessUlrich Schmölcke, Sönke Hartz et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025Cited by: 1References: 2

    Coastal‐oriented communities of the Ertebølle culture co‐existed in southern Scandinavia 6000–7000 years ago in relative proximity to farming communities. Despite many years of research, it is still unclear what role individual domestic animals played in this context, mainly due to a lack of dating and identification issues. This paper presents new details of the transformation processes throughout the neolithization of southern Scandinavia and n…

  • ZooMS, radiocarbon dating, and techno-typological re-assessment casts doubt on the supposed Late Glacial Husum LA11 skin boat fragment

    Open AccessMarkus Wild, Theis Zetner Trolle Jensen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2023References: 16

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

    Open AccessH K Robson, Alexandre Lucquin et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Prehistoric…2022References: 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…

  • Early Mesolithic bone points from Schleswig-Holstein

    Open AccessSönke Hartz, Zentrum für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie et al.ARTICLEUntersuchungen und Materialien…2020

    This volume of the series 'Untersuchungen und Materialien zur Steinzeit in Schleswig-Holstein und im Ostseeraum' represents the proceedings of a workshop held at the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA) in Schleswig in March 2016. It is a part of the editors' project 'Neubewertung von Chronologie und Stratigraphie des frhholoznen Fundplatzes Hohen Viecheln (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) unter besonderer Bercksichtigung der diagnostisch…

  • The emergence of hunter-gatherer pottery in the Urals and West Siberia

    Open AccessHenny Piezonka, Lubov Kosinskaya et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2020Cited by: 10References: 5

  • Stone Age Pottery Chronology in the Northeast European Forest Zone

    Open AccessHenny Piezonka, John Meadows et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2016Cited by: 5References: 32

    Pottery produced by mobile hunter-gatherer-fisher groups in the northeast European forest zone is among the earliest in Europe. Absolute chronologies, however, are still subject to debate due to a general lack of reliable contextual information. Direct radiocarbon dating of carbonized surface residues (“foodcrusts”) on pots can help to address this problem, as it dates the use of the pottery. If a pot was used to cook fish or other aquatic specie…

  • Exploring the complexity of domestication

    Allowen Evin, Linus Girdland Flink et al.ARTICLEWorld Archaeology2014Cited by: 4References: 2

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  • North Eurasian Hunter-Gatherer Ceramics as an Archaeological Source

    Open AccessSönke Hartz, Henny PiezonkaARTICLERadiocarbon2013Cited by: 1References: 9

    In his comment, “The Patterns of Neolithization in the North Eurasian Forest Zone: A Comment on Hartz et al. (2012),” Y Kuzmin has raised a number of questions concerning the paper “Hunter-Gatherer Pottery and Charred Residue Dating: New Results on Early Ceramics in the North Eurasian Forest Zone” by Hartz et al. (2012). The following remarks aim to clarify some of these issues

  • Illuminating the Late Mesolithic

    Open AccessCarl Heron, Søren Andersen et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2013Cited by: 17References: 23

    Shallow oval bowls used on the Baltic coast in the Mesolithic have been suggested as oil lamps, burning animal fat. Here researchers confirm the use of four coastal examples as lamps burning blubber—the fat of marine animals, while an inland example burned fat from terrestrial mammals or freshwater aquatics—perhaps eels. The authors use a combination of lipid biomarker and bulk and single-compound carbon isotope analysis to indicate the origin of…

  • Carbon and nitrogen isotope signals in eel bone collagen from Mesolithic and Neolithic sites in northern Europe

    Open AccessH K Robson, Harry Robson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2012Cited by: 20References: 6

  • A systematic approach to the recovery and identification of starches from carbonised deposits on ceramic vessels

    Open AccessHayley Saul, Julie Wilson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2012Cited by: 24References: 15

  • Hunter-Gatherer Pottery and Charred Residue Dating

    Open AccessSönke Hartz, Elena Kostyleva et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2012Cited by: 9References: 15

    This article discusses 18 accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dates from the peat bog sites Sakhtysh 2a, Ozerki 5, and Ozerki 17 in the Upper Volga region. The aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the emergence and dispersal of early ceramic traditions in northern Eurasia and their connection to the Baltic. With 1 exception, all dates were obtained from charred residue adhering to the sherd. A possible reservoir effect wa…

  • Radiocarbon Chronology of the Shigir and Gorbunovo Archaeological Bog Sites, Middle Urals, Russia

    Open AccessNatalia E Zaretskaya, Sönke Hartz et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2012Cited by: 7References: 5

    Two well-known archaeological sites, the peat bogs of Shigir and Gorbunovo (Middle Urals, Russia), have been radiocarbon dated (61 conventional and accelerator mass spectrometry [AMS] dates from various natural and artifact samples). For the first time, a detailed chronology of Early to Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic occupation for this region has been obtained, and a paleoenvironmental history reconstructed. Based on these results, we propo…

  • Mussels with Meat

    Open AccessRicardo Fernandes, Stefanie Bergemann et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2012Cited by: 11References: 55

    Local reservoir ages are often estimated from the difference between the radiocarbon ages of aquatic material and associated terrestrial samples for which no reservoir effect is expected. Frequently, the selected aquatic material consists of bivalve shells that are typically well preserved in the archaeological record. For instance, large shell middens attest to the importance of mussel consumption at both coastal and inland sites. However, diffe…

  • Ancient lipids reveal continuity in culinary practices across the transition to agriculture in Northern Europe

    Open AccessOliver E Craig, Valerie J Steele et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2011

    Farming transformed societies globally. Yet, despite more than a century of research, there is little consensus on the speed or completeness of this fundamental change and, consequently, on its principal drivers. For Northern Europe, the debate has often centered on the rich archaeological record of the Western Baltic, but even here it is unclear how quickly or completely people abandoned wild terrestrial and marine resources after the introducti…

  • Elks in the early Stone Age art of the northern Lowlands

    J Kabaciński, Sönke Hartz et al.ARTICLEPraehistorische Zeitschrift2011Cited by: 7

    Der Beitrag stellt drei mesolithische Geweihlochstäbe der Fundstellen Twedt-Buschau, Verchen (beide Norddeutschland) und Krzyż (Polen) vor, die nach Meinung der Autoren als zoomorphe Darstellungen interpretiert werden können. Die Basis der Abwurfstangen wurde jeweils teilweise abgearbeitet und die Sprosse als spitzer Stumpf zugerichtet. Die so entstandene Form kann als stilisierter Kopf eines Elches angesprochen werden. Die ähnliche Zurichtung de…

  • Ancient DNA provides no evidence for independent domestication of cattle in Mesolithic Rosenhof, Northern Germany

    Open AccessAmelie Scheu, Sönke Hartz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2007Cited by: 16References: 5

  • Final Paleolithic and Mesolithic Research in Reunified Germany

    Open AccessMartin Street, Michael Baales et al.ARTICLEJournal of World Prehistory2001Cited by: 35References: 6

  • Frühe Bauern an der Küste. Neue 14C-Daten und aktuelle Aspekte zum Neolithisierungsprozeß im norddeutschen Ostseeküstengebiet

    Sönke Hartz, D Heinrich et al.ARTICLEPraehistorische Zeitschrift2000Cited by: 2

    Article Frühe Bauern an der Küste. Neue 14C-Daten und aktuelle Aspekte zum Neolithisierungsprozeß im norddeutschen Ostseeküstengebiet was published on January 1, 2000 in the journal Praehistorische Zeitschrift (volume 75, issue 2)