A large fifth-millennium BC cemetery in the subarctic north of the Baltic Sea?
Hakonen, Aki; Perälä, Noora; Vaneeckhout, Samuel; Laurén, Tuija; Okkonen, Jari (2023-12-01)
Cambridge University Press
01.12.2023
Hakonen A, Perälä N, Vaneeckhout S, Laurén T, Okkonen J. A large fifth-millennium BC cemetery in the subarctic north of the Baltic Sea? Antiquity. 2023;97(396):1402-1419. doi:10.15184/aqy.2023.160.
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Abstract
The European far north is an improbable location for a large prehistoric hunter-gatherer cemetery. Tainiaro, 80km south of the Arctic Circle, was first excavated four decades ago but the unpublished findings and their potential significance have evaded wider recognition. Despite the absence of skeletal evidence, dozens of fifth-millennium BC pits have been tentatively interpreted as burials. Here, the authors present the first analytical and comparative overview of the site. Many of the pits are consistent in form with those used for inhumation at contemporaneous sites suggesting that Tainiaro is one of the largest Stone Age cemeteries in northern Europe and raising questions about the cultural and subsistence practices of prehistoric societies in the subarctic.
The European far north is an improbable location for a large prehistoric hunter-gatherer cemetery. Tainiaro, 80km south of the Arctic Circle, was first excavated four decades ago but the unpublished findings and their potential significance have evaded wider recognition. Despite the absence of skeletal evidence, dozens of fifth-millennium BC pits have been tentatively interpreted as burials. Here, the authors present the first analytical and comparative overview of the site. Many of the pits are consistent in form with those used for inhumation at contemporaneous sites suggesting that Tainiaro is one of the largest Stone Age cemeteries in northern Europe and raising questions about the cultural and subsistence practices of prehistoric societies in the subarctic.
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