Ornamented Antler Indicates Long-Distance Exchange between Mesolithic Communities
Artifacts and raw materials can provide insight into how Prehistoric communities exchanged gifts, such as stone transported for its technological significance, or metal products adorning graves. Recently, researchers found an ornamented bâton percé carved from antler of unknown origin in the Go??biewo site in Central Poland.This is an ornamented bâton percé.
Credit: Osipowicz et al (2017)
The reasons why this artifact was transported are subject to speculation, but the authors suggest that their results are possible evidence for the flow of goods between hunter-gatherer groups at a large distance. This study provides new insight into how ideas and items were exchanged in Mesolithic communities within North Eastern Europe.
“The route taken for transporting the Rangifer tarandus antler from nearby North Karelia to Central Poland, and the motive for transporting it, remain impossible to determine conclusively,” says Osipowicz. “However, the obtained results are the first direct evidence for the flow of goods between hunter-gatherer groups in the Early Holocene at such a great distance.”
Tessa Gregory
Citation: Osipowicz G, Witas H, Lisowska-Gaczorek A, Reitsema L, Szostek K, P?oszaj T, et al. (2017) Origin of the ornamented bâton percé from the Go??biewo site 47 as a trigger of discussion on long-distance exchange among Early Mesolithic communities of Central Poland and Northern Europe. PLoS ONE 12(10): e0184560. https://doi.org/10.137 The article is freely available article in PLOS ONE: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0184560
Source: http://www.ineffableisland.com/2017/10/ornamented-antler-indicates-long.html
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