The empirical basis for research on farming settlements in northern Norway 1200 BC – 0

Papers from the symposium in Copenhagen September 19^th to the 21^st 2012

Edited by Ditlev L. Mahler Northern Worlds

The National Museum of Denmark

Neolithic and Bronze Age Farming

The Border of Farming Shetland and

Scandinavia

The Border of Farming – Shetland and Scandinavia Neolithic and Bronze Age Farming

Papers from the symposium in Copenhagen September 19^th to the 21^st 2012

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Front cover:

Barley field, Scousburgh, South Mainland, Shet- land. Photo by Ditlev L. Mahler September 2011

Edited by Ditlev L. Mahler

Northern Worlds

The National Museum of Denmark Copenhagen 2013

Papers from the symposium in Copenhagen

September 19^th to the 21^st 2012

The Border of Farming Shetland and

Scandinavia

Neolithic and Bronze Age Farming

Contents

• Foreword

H. C. Gulløv

• The Border of Farming – Shetland and Scandinavia

Fleming Kaul & Ditlev L. Mahler

• Stanydale Hall – a Gatering Site or just a large Neolithic

House on Shetland?

Ditlev L. Mahler

• Living on the Land?

Val Turner

• Burnt Mounds: Transforming Space and Place in Bronze

Age Shetland Lauren Doughton

• Plus ça change…developments in Shetland,

c 2500–1800 BC Alison Sheridan

• Felsite Axehead reduction

– the Flow from Quarry pit to discard/deposition Torben Ballin

• Those who came before:

Shetland’s antiquarians and the Neolithic Jenny Murray & Carol Christiansen

• Neolithic in the Baltics.

From Agrarian Options to Practice Inga Merkyte

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• Patterns of Agricultural Spread in Nordic Landrace Crops Matti Leino

• Farmers Hunting and Hunters Farming

– the Expansion of Agrarian Societies during the Neolithic and Bronze Age in Scandinavia Lasse Sørensen

• Norway – Denmark.

Material Connections in the Early Bronze Age Karen Margrethe Hornstrup

• The One-edged Razor – Northernmost and Southernmost

Flemming Kaul

• The Earliest Agriculture in Central Norway – an Overview

of Indicators from the Steinkjer, Nord Trøndelag Frank Asprem

• The Empirical Basis for Research on Agricultural

Settlements in Northern Norway 1200 BC – 0 Johan E. Arntzen

• Contributors

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At the museum Færgegården. From the excursion during the symposium. Photo D. L. Mahler 2012.