title: Seating Spaces in Scandinavian Mesolithic Dwellings
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Grøn, Ole
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-11-03T18:16:03Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-11-03T18:16:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Grøn O. Seating Spaces in Scandinavian Mesolithic Dwellings. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021, vol. 66, issue 3, рp. 890–908.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.312
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33430
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The analysis of positioning patterns for individuals in Mesolithic dwellings presented here is
  based, on the one hand, on ethnographic data on hunter-gatherer culture-specific patterns
  for the placing of individuals in the dwelling space and, on the other, on observations in the
  excavated archaeological record of repetition in the spatial organisation of small artefact concentrations,
  hearths etc. in the well-preserved remains of Mesolithic dwellings. In addition to
  the latter spatial organisational patterns, zones containing relatively low densities of debitage
  have also, in a couple of cases, been seen to coincide with the proposed positions of individuals,
  as indicated by the ‘positive’ activity indicators. It has been suggested that these so-called
  ‘seating spaces’ are indicative of the fact that individuals seated in a dwelling kept their seating
  positions free of smaller pieces of waste. They possibly achieved this by sitting on some form
  of underlay — a small mat of skin or bark — that could easily be cleaned off while they drew
  to their seating positions larger pieces of debitage that were useful as tools for cutting, shaping
  etc. Based on data from several well-documented Mesolithic sites, this paper investigates this
  latter aspect further as a potentially independent way of checking the results of the first phase
  of distribution analysis of the Mesolithic dwellings. In general, recent excavations incorporating
  systematic recording of the flint debitage appear to produce meaningful results, while
  earlier excavations, where this category was recorded in less detail — often just being counted
  and discarded — tend not to.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 66; Issue 3
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: spatial analysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnoarchaeology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mesolithic archaeology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dwellings
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: stone age
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hunter-gatherer
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: organizational symbolism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Seating Spaces in Scandinavian Mesolithic Dwellings
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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