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Aktuell Arkeologi VIII
von Hackwitz, Kim & Werner, Tove (red). 2004. Stockholm Archaeological Reports Nr 42.
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Aktuell Arkeologi har sedan 1988 givits ut av Arkeologiska institutionen i Stockholm. Boken ingår i serien Stockholm Archaeological Reports och har som huvudsyfte att presentera pågående av handlingar vid institutionen. Denna volym, nummer VIII, är den första utgåvan detta millennium och även den fösta där doktorander antagna efter den senaste forskarutbildningsreformen bidrar med artiklar. Det är fem år sedan Aktuell Arkeologi gavs ut sist, nummer VII kom 1999 och detta tidsglapp kan delvis ses bero på denna reform, vilket bidragit till en mer restriktiv antagning i forskarutbildningen i arkeologi. Det är dock med glädje som vi i detta nummer kan konstatera att det fortfarande finns en stor variation i både tid och rum gällande forskningsområden.
Artiklarna i denna utgåva av Aktuell Arkeologi har inte något gemensamt tema, utan vår önskan har varit att så många som möjligt av institutionens doktorander ska bidra med sin forskning oberoende ämne. Artiklarna är kronologiskt ordnade och avslutas med de mer arkeologihistoriska bidragen.
Stockholm, augusti 2004
Kim von Hackwitz & Tove Werner
Bo Petré
Längs med Hjälmarens stränder och förbi - relationen mellan den gropkeramiska kulturen och båtyxekulturen
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von Hackwitz, Kim. 2009. Along the shores of Lake Hjälmaren and beyond – the relationship between the Pitted Ware Culture and the Boat Axe Culture. Stockholm Studies in Archaeology 51. Stockholm.
The nature of the relationship between the Pitted Ware Culture and the Boat Axe Culture has dominated Swedish Middle Neolithic research, since the question was raised a century ago. Basically, the debate is concerned with whether or not the two material cultures express two different ethnical groups. Proponents for the currently established perspective
stress that the cultures represent two distinct ethnic groups. A large amount of research has focused on identifying differences between the two cultures in the archaeological
record.
This study will test an alternative approach to the archaeology of the Middle Neolithic. Rather than presuming an antithetical relationship between the two cultures attention will be given to investigating the relationship between the Pitted Ware Culture and the Boat Axe Culture. This will be done by a landscape centered approach. In the first case I will test the conventional opinion expressing that the two cultures are spatially separated to the coast and the inland. In addition, the analysis seeks to understand how different activities were located in relation to various landscape phenomena. In the second case study, phenomenology and current landscape theory combined with a viewshed GIS-analysis will form the basis for a discussion regarding the localisation and function of the Pitted Ware sites. In the third case I will discuss connective features of the Middle Neolithic landscapes in the Lake Hjälmaren area. Focus will be given to the long-term processes and the reproduction of the cultural landscapes over
time.
Based on the results, I will propose that the Middle Neolithic archaeological record, rather than being the result of two ethnic groups, express a dynamic and active society that manifests itself through a variety of different places, which were maintained for specific purposes.
Keywords: Middle Neolithic, Sweden, Pitted Ware Culture, Boat Axe Culture, landscape,GIS, stray finds, historicity, landmarks, phenomenology, viewshed, territories, ethnicity
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