The Pitted Ware Culture on Djursland

Supra-regional significance and contacts in the Middle Neolithic of southern Scandinavia

Lutz Klassen

• Publisher: Aarhus University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9788771847826
• eBook ISBN:
  9788772191713
• Topic: Sciences sociales
• Subtopic: Histoire antique

Between ca. 3000 and 2800 BC, the Pitted Ware Culture of northeast European descent spread to the northeastern parts of Denmark. Here, by far the best archaeological evidence is known from the Djursland peninsula in eastern Jutland. This volume presents 12 individual papers that present the available finds from the key site of Kainsbakke as well as number of other excavated and not excavates sites. Besides artefacts, the faunal and botanical remains are dealt with in a comprehensive matter. Several papers are devoted to scientific analyses of chronology as well as the provenance of artefacts and selected faunal remains. On this basis, the Pitted Ware culture in Djursland is interpreted as a group that emerged locally from Funnel Beaker culture predecessors. This group choose to distinguish itself from its Funnel Beaker neighbours by giving itself a unique identity. This identity can be understood as a combination of Pitted Ware traits in material culture and ritual conduct obtained through close contact with Neolithic groups on the west coast of Sweden with elements derived from contemporaneous Funnel Beaker groups in other parts of Denmark.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Colophon
• Contents
• Preface
• The Pitted Ware Phenomenon on Djursland and Maritime Relations across the Kattegat in the Middle Neolithic: An introduction (Lutz Klassen, Rune Iversen & Lisbeth Wincentz)
• Kainsbakke and Kirial Bro: The two main sites of the Pitted Ware culture on Djursland (Lisbeth Wincentz)
• Four minor Pitted Ware culture sites on Djursland: Their individual character and function (Uffe Rasmussen)
• Pitted Ware culture settlement on Djursland: Overview and interpretation (Uffe Rasmussen, Lisbeth Wincentz, Lutz Klassen & Ole B. Poulsen)
• The Pitted Ware culture chronology on Djursland: New evidence from Kainsbakke and other sites (Bente Philippsen, Rune Iversen & Lutz Klassen)
• Herder-hunter-fishers and agricultural contacts: Zooarchaeological perspectives on Pitted Ware animal exploitation strategies from Djursland (Cheryl A. Makarewicz & Sarah Pleuger)
• Exploitation of marine fish byPitted Ware groups at Kainsbakkeand Kirial Bro (Sarah Pleuger & Cheryl A. Makarewicz)
• Agriculture during the Pitted Wareculture in the Kattegat region? (Marianne H. Andreasen)
• Provenancing Neolithic pottery: An investigation of the elemental composition of Pitted Ware and Funnel Beaker pottery from Djursland and adjacent regions (Malou Blank, Torbjörn Brorsson & Imelda Bakunic Fridén)
• Strontium and lead isotope studies of faunal and human remains from Kainsbakke and Kirial Bro (Lutz Klassen, T. Douglas Price, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Lisbeth Wincentz & Bente Philippsen)
• Genetic sex and haplogroup identification of the Pitted Ware culture human upper jaw from Kainsbakke, Denmark (Morten E. Allentoft)
• The Pitted Ware culture on Djursland inthe Neolithic world (Lutz Klassen, Rune Iversen, Niels Nørkjær Johannsen, Uffe Rasmussen & Ole B. Poulsen)