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Subsistence diversity in the Younger Stone Age landscape of Varangerfjord, northern Norway

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lisa Hodgetts
Lisa Hodgetts*
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*Department of Anthropology, Social Science Centre, University of Western Ontario, London ON, N6A 5C2, Canada
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Abstract

Explorations of Stone Age diversity take another step forward with this study of a group of neighbouring sites in Arctic Norway. While all are situated around a fjord, and only a few kilometres apart, the faunal assemblage shows that some are seal specialists, while others hunt reindeer and others again ambush dolphins. Each was creating its own local environment, hunting territory and landscape, not defended but respected, with intimate connections between people and places.

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NorwayYounger Stone Agefaunal remainsreindeerdolphinssealscomplexitylandscapeterritory
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Research
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Antiquity , Volume 84 , Issue 323 , March 2010 , pp. 41 - 54
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2010

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