Baltic Prehistoric Interactions and Transformations: The Neolithic to the Bronze Age

Description

Settled since several thousand years the Baltic Sea area has a rich and to some degree well documented prehistoric material culture. The remains show various patterns of interaction both within the Baltic area and beyond. This publication focuses mainly on the prehistoric Island Societies in the Baltic Sea during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, c. 2300-1100 BC. The articles are based on papers given at the Baltic Rim Seminar "Baltic Prehistoric Interactions and Transformations during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age Societies" October 3-5 2008. Helene Martinsson-Wallin / Preface 3 Valter Lang / The Early Bronze Age in Estonia: Sites, Finds and the Transition to Farming 5 Alexandra Strömberg & Daniel Anderberg / A Research Overview and Discussion of the Late Neolithic and the Bronze Age on Åland 23 Paul Wallin / Neolithic Monuments on Gotland: Material Expressions of the Domestication Process 39 Helene Martinsson-Wallin / Bronze Age Landscapes on Gotland: Moving from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age Perspective 63 Gunilla Runesson / Gotlandic Bronze Age Settlements in Focus 79 Joakim Wehlin / Approaching the Gotlandic Bronze Age from Sea. Future Possibilities from a Maritime Perspective 89 Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay / Late Neolithic Burial Practice on the Island of Öland, Southeast Sweden 111 Kenneth Alexandersson / Mören - More than a Dull Weekday: Ritual and Domestic Behavior in Two Late Neolithic Contexts in Southern Möre 131 Leif Karlenby / Pottery in the Well - The Significance of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Decorated Pottery in East Sweden 141