Remodelling the neolithic in Southern Norway
Another attack on a traditional problem
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6095437 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa G Bostwick Bjerck (Vitensenteret i Trondheim, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-33 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Norwegian Archaeological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0029-3652 • E-ISSN: 1502-7678 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00293652.1988.9965464 |
| OpenAlex | W2069479503 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
The explanations for agricultural development in southern Norway are based on three archaeological variables; land use, settlement patterns, and wealth and cultural affinities displayed in rituals and burials. The present explanatory models for Neolithic socio‐economic change in eastern and western Norway emphasize external origins of change, and are based on general, regional pollen diagrams and on the assumption that sites located on good soils and/or the presence of Neolithic artifacts from southern Scandinavia indicate an agricultural economy. A critical evaluation of the basic evidence and new interpretive models based on long‐distance social relations of production and exchange, in‐context subsistence information, and intensive use of the forest for grazing and cultivation suggest different explanations for the development of agriculture in eastern and western Norway. Middle Neolithic ‘de‐neolithification’ in eastern Norway may represent an intensification in the use of the available domestic and marine resources rather than a decline. The long period of limited agricultural activity in western Norway is attributed to social as well as environmental factors
Agriculture · Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · Geography · Period (music) · Prehistory · Settlement (finance) · Subsistence agriculture · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
The Stone Age of northern Scandinavia
Carbonised Cereal from Three Late Neolithic and Two Early Bronze Age Sites in Western Norway
Sub-Local Differences in Late Holocene Land Use at Orstad, Jæren in SW Norway, revealed by Soil Pollen Stratigraphy
Sub-Local Differences in Late Holocene Land Use at Orstad, Jæren in SW Norway, revealed by Soil Pollen Stratigraphy
Early- and Middle-Neolithic Agriculture in Denmark
A forested form of life
Paradigm gained ‐ paradigm lost? 150 years of Norwegian Bronze age research
The Use of Pollen, Magnetic and Carbon Analyses in Identifying Agricultural Activity and Soil Erosion from the Neolithic to the Iron Age – A Study of Two Lake Sediment Cores from Jæren, South-Western Norway
Carbonised Cereal from Three Late Neolithic and Two Early Bronze Age Sites in Western Norway
The Environmental Aspects and Palynological Signals of the “Fairy-Circles” – Ancient Earthworks linked to Coastal Heathland in South-Western Norway
The Environmental Aspects and Palynological Signals of the “Fairy-Circles” – Ancient Earthworks linked to Coastal Heathland in South-Western Norway
Evidence for Mesolithic agriculture in and around central Europe
Cultural landscape development on a west–east gradient in western Norway – potential of the Landscape Reconstruction Algorithm (LRA)
The Mesolithic of Southern Scandinavia
Hesitant hunters
A Model for the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in the Upper Kennet Valley, North Wiltshire
Task Groups and Social Inequality in Early Neolithic Western Norway
Late Neolithic and bronze age developments on the periphery of southern Scandinavia
Was therereallya Neolithic in Norway
| Citations per year | 0.51 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1989 - 2026 (38) |
| Highly cited | No |