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{"title":"STONE-CIST GRAVE AT KASEKÜLA, WESTERN ESTONIA, IN THE LIGHT OF AMS DATES OF THE HUMAN BONES","authors":"M. Laneman","doi":"10.3176/ARCH.2012.2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3176/ARCH.2012.2.01","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses new AMS dates of the human bones at stone-cist grave I at Kasekula, western Estonia, in the context of previously existent radiocarbon dates, artefact finds and osteological studies. There are altogether 12 radiocarbon dates for 10 inhumations (i.e. roughly a third of all burials) of the grave, provided by two laboratories. The dates suggest three temporally separated periods in the use life of the grave(s): the Late Bronze Age, the Pre-Roman Iron Age and the Late Iron Age. In the latter period, the grave was probably reserved for infant burials only. Along with chronological issues, the article discusses the apparently unusual structure of the grave and compares two competing osteological studies of the grave’s bone assemblage from an archaeologist’s point of view.","PeriodicalId":42767,"journal":{"name":"Estonian Journal of Archaeology","volume":"43 1","pages":"91-117"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84585472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"SCANDINAVIAN LATE VIKING AGE ART STYLES AS A PART OF THE VISUAL DISPLAY OF WARRIORS IN 11TH CENTURY ESTONIA","authors":"Indrek Jets","doi":"10.3176/ARCH.2012.2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3176/ARCH.2012.2.02","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the archaeological finds from Estonia that are decorated in Scandinavian Late Viking Age ornamental styles. The majority of such finds come from burials in local fashion. The aim of the article is to outline the role of Scandinavian ornament in culture, social strategies, ideology and identity of the local society. Belt fittings and silver-plated weapons comprise the largest part of such finds. While the belt fittings often show simplified patterns, pure Scandinavian style ornament is found on weapons. The current article aims to propose a connection between warfare and warrior culture and the usage of Scandinavian ornament in Estonia. This martial link is found to coincide with the meanings proposed for animal ornament in Scandinavia. In Estonia, the fashion to decorate weapons was most widely spread in the time of Ringerike and Urnes styles. In that period, decorated weapons may have had a specific role in social strategies, probably implying the rise in position of the warrior strata. The article also discusses international relations as the background for the adoption of Scandinavian ornament. The gender aspect is mentioned, as the Scandinavian ornament associates with the male warrior role, while different symbolic languages were used in female attire. The Late Viking Age Scandinavian ornament in Estonia is seen as the visual display of the identity of warriors’ social class and the affiliation of Estonian warriors with the Scandinavian cultural sphere, while the local identity was manifested mainly by some types of female jewellery.","PeriodicalId":42767,"journal":{"name":"Estonian Journal of Archaeology","volume":"33 1","pages":"118-139"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88268051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Jagala Fibula Revisited, or Remarks on Werner's Class II D/Veel Kord Jagala Solest Ehk Markusi Werneri II D Klassi Kohta","authors":"Florin Curta","doi":"10.3176/ARCH.2012.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3176/ARCH.2012.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"Half a century ago, Harri Moora was convinced that the Iron Age stronghold at Jagala, in northern Estonia, was still occupied in the seventh century, because of a fibula accidentally found by Erik Laid on that site in 1939 (Moora 1955, 53; Johanson & Veldi 2005, 30). Moora dated the fibula on the basis of analogies from Ukraine, without however citing Joachim Werner's influential paper on \"Slavic\" bow fibulae, which had been published just a few years before his own work (Werner 1950). He must have been struck by the great resemblance between the Jagala fibula (Fig. 1: 9) and other specimens, which Werner had assigned to his class II D (\"fibulae with bird-heads and circle-and-dot decoration\"; Werner 1950, 161 f.). (1) There are now 45 specimens known for that class, 26 (58 percent) of which have been found on the territory of present-day Ukraine, outside Crimea. (2) It is therefore time to re-examine Moora's premises in the light of the new finds and re-evaluate his conclusion regarding the northernmost find of Werner's \"Slavic\" fibulae. (3) [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Introduction For his classification, Werner relied on visual, mostly intuitive criteria, of which he named only two: the bird-head headplate crown and the circle-and-dot decoration on both head- and footplate. He did not pay any attention to differences in size. For example, the fibula from grave 28 in Suuk Su (Fig. 2: 31) was published side by side with that from Pastyrs'ke (Fig. 2: 24), but appears considerably smaller, although the two artefacts are almost of the same size (Werner 1950, pl. 40: 31 and 33). By contrast, in her recent study, Vlasta Rodinkova distinguished between large fibulae with rather realistically designed bird heads in the headplate crown (such as those found in grave 28 in Suuk Su or in Smorodino, Fig. 2: 29 and 31) and shorter specimens with stylized bird heads (such as those from Kerch' and burial chamber 36 in Luchistoe, Figs 1: 10 and 2: 22). According to Rodinkova, specimens of the second group were imitations of the larger and more elaborate fibulae. (4) She also noticed that some fibulae of her second group have a larger number of bird-heads (as many as eight in the case of the Kuz'minki fibula, Fig. 2: 21) than fibulae of the first group (e.g., Smorodino and an unknown location in the Middle Dnieper region, both with only five bird heads, Fig. 2: 29 and Fig. 3: 39). However, Rodinkova did not notice that the headplate crowns with five bird heads are themselves imitations of bow fibulae from the Danube region dated to the sixth century, such as that from the Fleissig collection of the National Museum of History in Budapest or the fragment from Orlea, which Joachim Werner treated as a specimen of his class I A (Werner 1950, 151 and pl. 27: 3; Csallany 1961, pl. 215: 6; Teodor 1992, 142 and fig. 7: 2). (5) It is perhaps worth mentioning that a fibula from Nea Anchialos (Greece), which belongs to Werner's class I B, has a crown of seven equal, highly stylized bi","PeriodicalId":42767,"journal":{"name":"Estonian Journal of Archaeology","volume":"10 1","pages":"26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87925611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EARLY COPPER USE IN NEOLITHIC NORTH- EASTERN EUROPE: AN OVERVIEW","authors":"K. Nordqvist, Vesa-Pekka Herva, Janne P. Ikäheimo, Antti Lahelma","doi":"10.3176/ARCH.2012.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3176/ARCH.2012.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction Copper was known and used in different parts of Eurasia several millennia before the beginning of the Bronze Age. The earliest evidence derives from the Near East and Anatolia, where copper was first used between the 11th and 7th millennia BC, whereas copper use in Europe, specifically in the Balkans and the South-East, began by the mid-6th millennium BC (Roberts et al. 2009, 1013). Copper use spread from south-eastern Europe to the steppes of southern Russia (Chernykh 1992, 41 f.) and was introduced farther to the forested regions of East European (or Russian) Plain along the rivers Volga and Kama in the 4th millennium BC (Krajnov 1987, 14 f.; Nagovitsyn 1987, 32). The use of copper was introduced in central, western and northern Europe through different processes at different times (Roberts et al. 2009, 1015 f.); copper smelting was known in the eastern Alps in the 5th millennium BC (Hoppner et al. 2005), at a time when large-scale metal production in the Balkans had begun (Bailey 2000, 209), whereas signs of metal use are few in north-western Europe before 2500 BC (Roberts 2009, 467). In north-eastern Europe the use of native copper began soon after 4000 BC in what is today the Republic of Karelia (Russian Federation), when copper artefacts appear in find assemblages. While a number of early copper finds are also known from central and northern parts of Finland, they are very rare on the Scandinavian Peninsula and in the Baltic countries. The early appearance of copper in eastern Fennoscandia is common knowledge among Russian and Finnish archaeologists, but the general picture of this early copper use is patchy and its wider context elusive, which has to do with the limited research material, different academic traditions as well as linguistic and national boundaries. As the relevant publications are mainly in Russian and Finnish, the early copper finds from northeastern Europe have often been omitted from the surveys and studies on the beginning of metal use in Europe. Even the early metal finds have been subject to some research and scientific analyses in Russia and Finland, very little has been said about why copper was adopted and how early copper use relates to broader cultural developments. This paper provides an overview and discussion of the early copper finds and metal use in north-eastern Europe. More specifically, the geographical research area stretches from the shores of Lake Onega in the east to the Baltic Sea in the west and from the Baltic countries in the south to the Arctic Ocean in the north (Fig. 1). Early metal use in this region is put in a broader context, with a special reference to the northern European Russia. The period of interest here is 4000-2000 BC (all dates are given in calibrated radiocarbon years, i.e. calBC). A large part of this time frame is commonly referred to as the Eneolithic in Russia but is called the (Sub-)Neolithic in Finland (Fig. 2). In this paper the term Neolithic is preferred, alt","PeriodicalId":42767,"journal":{"name":"Estonian Journal of Archaeology","volume":"19 1","pages":"3-25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85731280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE REALM OF VALUES OF ESTONIAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS","authors":"Liis Livin","doi":"10.3176/ARCH.2012.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3176/ARCH.2012.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction Topics concerning the relationship between archaeology and ethics are discussed all over the world. Estonian archaeologists have followed these societal developments and begun to ponder over the ethics of archaeology. One of the markers of such a development is the compilation and adoption of a code of ethics of Estonian archaeology--\"Ethical principles of an archaeologist\" (EPA) (1). It is a sign that archaeologists use the outputs of practical ethics to make their work more efficient and reason-based. The code embodies the idea of an ethical archaeology, which is a promise to archaeologists themselves, to their colleagues and to the society to behave in an ethical manner. Ethical behaviour is composed of numerous moral principles. Abiding by those principles should lead to the best possible practices and behaviour. That, however, requires knowledge about values. Having been part of the process of creating the code of ethics (see Livin 2008) I have realized that the theme of ethics in archaeology needs to evolve to a new and deeper level-the level of values. Archaeologists have an important and responsible role in society as interpreters of cultural heritage and creators of knowledge. Their narrations about the past facilitate the creation and uphold of national identity and memory. Thus, the moral dimension of an archaeologist's profession derives largely from his/her responsibilities towards the public. This is probably the primary reason why an archaeologist should be ethically fit. The president and founder of the Institute of Global Ethics, Dr. Rushworth M. Kidder states that most wrongdoings arise because actions are out of sync with values either with an individual's inner values or with values we can reasonably take for granted in the community at large. This incongruity arises because those values have remained more or less undefined (Kidder 2003, 43). This article seeks to map out the value system of Estonian archaeologists and simultaneously bring out the most important professional values of archaeologists. For conceptualizing and defining \"value\", I will primarily rely on Edgar H. Schein's (2004) model of culture and Milton Rokeach's theoretical standpoints presented in 1973 and 1979. Even though the current article aims to observe and discuss the normative and individual value system of archaeologists in Estonia, the goal of this paper is not to evaluate whether Estonian archaeologists behave ethically or not. Also, the results brought out in this study only reflect the situation in Estonia and without similar research conducted in other countries, it is not possible to compare the value systems of archaeologists from different regions. While this sort of study would be highly beneficial and would help put the results of the current article in a more international context, not enough research has been carried out on this topic in order to make broader conclusions about the values and ethical behaviour among European ar","PeriodicalId":42767,"journal":{"name":"Estonian Journal of Archaeology","volume":"12 1","pages":"70"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87216127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"BONE ARTEFACTS FROM THE KEAVA HILL FORT AND LINNAALUSTE SETTLEMENT SITES","authors":"H. Luik","doi":"10.3176/arch.2012.supv1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3176/arch.2012.supv1.05","url":null,"abstract":"About 50 bone artefacts and pieces of bone working scrap have been found at the Keava hill fort and Linnaaluste settlement sites. More than half of these items were discovered among faunal remains in the course of the investigation of animal bones. From settlement sites I and III of Linnaaluste, finds typical of the Viking Age, particularly in northern and western Estonia, have been recovered. Finds from Keava hill fort have analogies among the finds from many hill forts and settlement sites of the Final Iron Age. Most of the bone artefacts were made of bones of domestic animals, and objects and working scrap of bones of wild animals are few in number. Based on the random choice of bones plus the level of bone working and the number of artefacts and scrap pieces in Linnaaluste, as well as in Keava, bone working was a domestic craft, and users themselves made the necessary artefacts. From the found bone artefacts it is also possible to gain information about some occupations other than bone working. 1 The research was financed by the target financed research project No. SF0130012s08.","PeriodicalId":42767,"journal":{"name":"Estonian Journal of Archaeology","volume":"8 1","pages":"92"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74557271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ARCHAEOZOOLOGICAL MATERIAL FROM THE SETTLEMENT SITES AT LINNAALUSTE AND THE HILL FORT AT KEAVA","authors":"L. Maldre","doi":"10.3176/ARCH.2012.SUPV1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3176/ARCH.2012.SUPV1.06","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper discusses the results of archaeozoological analyses of materials collected from the settlements of Linnaaluste and from the hill fort of Keava. Also the issues concerning the anatomical composition of bone material and the age of animals at slaughter are examined. The prevailing part of bone fragments belong to domesticated animals. The sheep/goats are dominating species in the materials of the Viking Age settlements (I and III). The percentage of sheep/goat is somewhat smaller and the percentage of pig is greater in the material of Final Iron Age hill fort. The relative importance of pig is even more prominent in the material of II settlement, which is mixed with bone fragments of later period. The percentage of cattle is approximately the same in all materials. The bones of game are few, the represented species are beaver, elk, fox, hare and bear. The comparative analyses of results are conducted; for comparison the archaeozoological data of other Estonian settlements and hill forts from Viking Age and Final Iron Age are used. 1 This study was supported by the target financed research project No. SF0130012s08 and grants from Estonian Science Foundation (Nos 7880 and 8526).","PeriodicalId":42767,"journal":{"name":"Estonian Journal of Archaeology","volume":"6 1","pages":"106"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76943780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A COMPARISON OF PALAEO-ECOLOGICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF HUMAN HABITATION AT KEAVA","authors":"V. Lang, A. Heinsalu, S. Veski","doi":"10.3176/arch.2012.supv1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3176/arch.2012.supv1.10","url":null,"abstract":"Peat record from a very small basin, the former mire of Verevainu, in the nearest vicinity of the prehistoric settlement centre at Keava (4th century BC – early 13th century AD), was investigated by palaeo-ecological means, namely by pollen, charcoal, and loss-on-ignition analyses and radiocarbon dating. The study aimed at ascertaining the appearance of prehistoric man in the area and reconstructing the local vegetation history and human impact on the environment around the settlement centre. According to palaeo-ecological evidence the first sporadic cereal pollen grains appeared in the sediments in the Late Bronze Age. Both peat ignition residue values as indicators of topsoil erosion and pollen evidence suggest forest clearance, opening of landscape, and cultivation of cereals from the Pre-Roman Iron Age. Approximately at AD 350–500 the rate of human impact upon environment increased notably. The comparison of palaeo-ecological data with archaeological evidence of human inhabitation displays not only large coincidences but also some discrepancies. 1","PeriodicalId":42767,"journal":{"name":"Estonian Journal of Archaeology","volume":"1 1","pages":"184-194"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89229792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"BUILDING REMAINS AT THE HILL FORT OF KEAVA","authors":"V. Lang","doi":"10.3176/ARCH.2012.SUPV1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3176/ARCH.2012.SUPV1.02","url":null,"abstract":"Archaeological investigations at the hill fort of Keava have revealed the remains of five fortification phases dating from the 5th–6th centuries to the early 13th century. The earliest two phases (forts I and II) were recognizable only in the area of the ramparts as definite fortification structures. The later phases (forts III–V) since the late 10th – early 11th century were observable both in the area of the ramparts (defensive structures) and in the compound (building remains), as well as in the find assemblage. The hidden gateway beneath the rampart was first built during phase III; in later times, however, it was repeatedly rebuilt. Stone material was widely used in the construction of the rampart and the gateway of the last fort, which dated from the late 12th – early 13th century. The fort was finally captured by the crusaders, most likely in 1224; they dug a large hollow on the northern hill slope and dropped the rampart. 1 This study was supported by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (Center of Excellence CECT), the target financed theme No. SF0180150s08, and by the research grants from Estonian Science Foundation (Nos 4563 and 6451).","PeriodicalId":42767,"journal":{"name":"Estonian Journal of Archaeology","volume":"39 1","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82109616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS FROM THE HILL FORT AT KEAVA","authors":"A. Tvauri","doi":"10.3176/arch.2012.supv1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3176/arch.2012.supv1.03","url":null,"abstract":"During archaeological excavations at the Keava hill fort, 137 artefacts and approximately 1680 potsherds were recovered from the area of 88 m. Most of the recovered artefacts belong to types, which were used during the 11th–13th centuries. In the deeper layers of excavation area I, pottery fragments dating to the Viking Age were found. A spearhead found earlier in the hill fort belongs to the 11th century. All of the other artefacts that can be dated with reasonable certainty belong to the late 12th century or the first quarter of the 13th century. Finds from Keava are ample but also typical of the Estonian Final Iron Age hill forts (e.g. Varbola, Soontagana and Lõhavere). The assemblage is mainly composed of ornaments, personal belongings, metal parts of clothing, scrap metal and bronze work residues. 1 This study was supported by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (Center of Excellence CECT), the target financed theme No. SF0180150s08, and by the research grants from the Estonian Science Foundation (nos 4563 and 6451).","PeriodicalId":42767,"journal":{"name":"Estonian Journal of Archaeology","volume":"100 1","pages":"36-62"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73258987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}