The technological and functional aspect of the osseous artefacts of Early and Middle Holocene hunter-gatherer-fishers communities inhabiting the East Baltic Plain
In the past two weeks, we were in Latvia, mainly at the Museum Storage Facility in Riga. We documented and analysed unique prehistoric bone points and fishing hooks from Lake Lubāns. Prof. Osipowicz also examined a small wooden boat recovered from a swamp in the late 19th century, revealed by radiocarbon dating to be a Mesolithic artifact!
We invite all interested to read a new article which presents the first results of both dryland and underwater investigations at the multi-period Garnys riverine site situated on the Žeimena River in eastern Lithuania, which appeared in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports!!!
Gytis Piličiauskas, Elena Pranckėnaitė, Aldas Matiukas, Grzegorz Osipowicz, Kęstutis Peseckas, Justina Kozakaitė, Aldona Damušytė, Erika Gál, Giedrė Piličiauskienė, Harry K. Robson (2023). Garnys: An underwater riverine site with delayed Neolithisation in the southeastern Baltic. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104232
EXARC/EAC held its first fully hybrid conference this year at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland on 1-3 May. The conference was a huge success. Among the many exciting presentations, we were pleased to present the first results of traceological studies of the wooden artefacts from site Sventoji in Lithuania: Traceology on Prehistoric Wooden Artefacts. Is it Possible? By Grzegorz Osipowicz (PL), Justyna Orłowska (PL), Giedrė Piličiauskienė (LT), Gytis Piličiauskas (LT). Right now, its time to prepare a nice article! 🙂
The last stage of our December tour was a visit to the National Museum of Lithuania in Vilnius, where we realised the second stage of sampling unique wooden artefacts discovered at a Subneolithic site in Sventoji for the anthracological analyses and radiocarbon dating. It is a supplementing study to our main project focused on bone artefacts. It was a lot of very precise and stressful work, but we are sure that the results of these studies will be stunning 🙂
Now we are finally back in Poland. Happy Christmas and a lot of joy in the coming year to all of You:)
Dear Colleagues, let me introduce the logo of our project. It will allow the ones interested in our studies to recognize them easier on the internet.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
After visiting Estonia, we traveled to Latvia, where in the National History Museum of Latvia in Riga we had an opportunity to study unique finds from Lake Lubāns.
In the second half of December, we visited beautiful Tallinn in Estonia, where we analyzed bone artifacts from the Mesolithic site of Pulli. We thank the staff of the Archaeological research collection, Tallinn University, for their warm welcome and all their help 🙂
We invite all interested to read a new article regarding the osseous artefacts discovered in the Late Mesolithic burial no 57 and Neolithic burial no 164 at Zvejnieki cemetery in Latvia, which appeared in the Quaternary International Journal!!!
Osipowicz, G., Orłowska, J., & Zagorska, I. (2022). Towards understanding the influence of Neolithisation for communities using the Zvejnieki cemetery, Latvia : a technological and functional analysis of the osseous artefacts discovered in the Late Mesolithic burial no 57 and Neolithic burial no 164. Quaternary International, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.11.007