The Maritime Identities of Communities Colonizing Norway

The colonization of the northernmost parts of Europe is one of the most exciting periods of prehistory to consider. This was a time when previously inhospitable ecozones were opening up, new forms of flora and fauna were becoming established and people were encountering new and unoccupied landscapes (Spikins 2008). While the people involved almost certainly had a different view on this process from ourselves, nevertheless they would have known that they were moving into hitherto unknown worlds (cf. Riede 2007). In his paper Glørstad considers one element of this process: the boats that we know must have been involved in the colonization process but which are nevertheless missing from the archaeological record. While the focus of the paper is boats, in actual fact this discussion could be about many components of the archaeological record: much of the material culture that people used no longer survives. The question addressed here, and of course in many spheres of discussion, is how we deal with a partial and incomplete record

Archaeology · Geography · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology

• The Earliest Boat Depiction in Northern Europe

  Open Access•Jan Magne Gjerde•Oxford Journal of Archaeology•2021

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