{"id":2121,"date":"2021-03-14T13:24:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T12:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zbsa.eu\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2023-02-07T11:25:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T10:25:53","slug":"defining-the-ahrensburgian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zbsa.eu\/en\/defining-the-ahrensburgian\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining the Ahrensburgian. Contributions from a technological study of reindeer antler artefacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2121\" class=\"elementor elementor-2121\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-788e902f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"788e902f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-685f7d0\" data-id=\"685f7d0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2684837f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2684837f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"documentDescription\"><strong><span id=\"parent-fieldname-description\" class=\"\">PD Dr. Berit Valentin Eriksen<\/span><\/strong><\/p><div id=\"parent-fieldname-body_text\" class=\"\"><p>In 1897 Sophus M\u00fcller, head of the National Museum of Denmark, reported on two recent finds of reindeer antler clubs from N\u00f8rre Lyngby (locus classicus of the now obsolete Lyngby culture) and Odense Canal. Unfortunately both of these implements were stray finds without context. In a brief essay M\u00fcller discussed the possibility of assigning these artefacts a Palaeolithic age, but the pieces were so unique that he refrained and instead argued of a connection with the much later so-called Arctic Stone Age of Northern Finland, Sweden and Norway. Half a century later the chronological framework of the reindeer antler clubs and mattocks \u2013 now also known as Lyngby axes \u2013 was firmly established to be late glacial due to their occurrence in great numbers at the classic Ahrensburgian Stellmoor site. Henceforth they were generally assigned to the Ahrensburgian culture without further ado.<\/p><p>However, the spatio-temporal distribution of the so-called Lyngby axes is somewhat different from that of Ahrensburgian lithic inventories sensu stricto. And moreover, most of the presently known specimens are single finds and some of the Danish and Swedish implements may actually equally well be attributed to the preceding Brommian culture. Accordingly, these reindeer antler artefacts (clubs, mattocks, axes) should rather be assigned to the Tanged Point Complex sensu lato. This observation is also corroborated by a recently published implement from Klappholz LA 63 which is firmly dated to the Aller\u00f8d. It is obviously important to develop a dating programme that employs AMS-dating to systematically date and place these artefacts in their appropriate cultural context.<\/p><p>Such a dating programme is but one element in the present co-operative research project involving senior researchers from ZBSA and CNRS (Centre National de la Recherce Scientifique, Paris). An initial pilot study of 18 Lyngby axes from the Stellmoor find horizon has established the immaculate research potential of this group of artefacts with respect to a \u00bbcha\u00eene op\u00e9ratoire\u00ab analysis aiming at a complete dynamic reconstruction of their manufacture and use life. Based on a complete, contextual re-examination of the Lyngby axes from Stellmoor and other north European sites, we are accordingly confident that we shall succeed in answering questions pertaining to the socio-cultural importance of these implements.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"ms-editor-squiggler\" style=\"color: initial; font: initial; font-feature-settings: initial; font-kerning: initial; font-optical-sizing: initial; font-variation-settings: initial; forced-color-adjust: initial; text-orientation: initial; text-rendering: initial; -webkit-font-smoothing: initial; -webkit-locale: initial; -webkit-text-orientation: initial; -webkit-writing-mode: initial; writing-mode: initial; zoom: initial; place-content: initial; place-items: initial; place-self: initial; alignment-baseline: initial; animation: initial; appearance: initial; aspect-ratio: initial; backdrop-filter: initial; backface-visibility: initial; background: initial; background-blend-mode: initial; baseline-shift: initial; block-size: initial; 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Berit Valentin Eriksen<\/p><div class=\"ms-editor-squiggler\" style=\"color: initial; font: initial; font-feature-settings: initial; font-kerning: initial; font-optical-sizing: initial; font-variation-settings: initial; forced-color-adjust: initial; text-orientation: initial; text-rendering: initial; -webkit-font-smoothing: initial; -webkit-locale: initial; -webkit-text-orientation: initial; -webkit-writing-mode: initial; writing-mode: initial; zoom: initial; place-content: initial; place-items: initial; place-self: initial; alignment-baseline: initial; animation: initial; appearance: initial; aspect-ratio: initial; backdrop-filter: initial; backface-visibility: initial; background: initial; background-blend-mode: initial; baseline-shift: initial; block-size: initial; border-block: initial; border: initial; border-radius: initial; border-collapse: initial; border-end-end-radius: initial; border-end-start-radius: initial; border-inline: initial; border-start-end-radius: initial; border-start-start-radius: initial; 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Unfortunately both of these implements were stray finds without context. In a brief essay M\u00fcller discussed the possibility of assigning these artefacts a Palaeolithic age, but the pieces were so unique that he refrained and instead argued of a connection with the much later so-called Arctic Stone Age of Northern Finland, Sweden and Norway. Half a century later the chronological framework of the reindeer antler clubs and mattocks \u2013 now also known as Lyngby axes \u2013 was firmly established to be late glacial due to their occurrence in great numbers at the classic Ahrensburgian Stellmoor site. Henceforth they were generally assigned to the Ahrensburgian culture without further ado. However, the spatio-temporal distribution of the so-called Lyngby axes is somewhat different from that of Ahrensburgian lithic inventories sensu stricto. And moreover, most of the presently known specimens are single finds and some of the Danish and Swedish implements may actually equally well be attributed to the preceding Brommian culture. Accordingly, these reindeer antler artefacts (clubs, mattocks, axes) should rather be assigned to the Tanged Point Complex sensu lato. This observation is also corroborated by a recently published implement from Klappholz LA 63 which is firmly dated to the Aller\u00f8d. It is obviously important to develop a dating programme that employs AMS-dating to systematically date and place these artefacts in their appropriate cultural context. Such a dating programme is but one element in the present co-operative research project involving senior researchers from ZBSA and CNRS (Centre National de la Recherce Scientifique, Paris). An initial pilot study of 18 Lyngby axes from the Stellmoor find horizon has established the immaculate research potential of this group of artefacts with respect to a \u00bbcha\u00eene op\u00e9ratoire\u00ab analysis aiming at a complete dynamic reconstruction of their manufacture and use life. Based on a complete, contextual re-examination of the Lyngby axes from Stellmoor and other north European sites, we are accordingly confident that we shall succeed in answering questions pertaining to the socio-cultural importance of these implements. \u00a0 Themenbereiche Mensch und Artefakt \u00a0\u00a0 Forschungsschwerpunkte Technologie \u2013 Tradition und Innovation Mitarbeiter Leitung:PD Dr. habil. 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It is obviously important to develop a dating programme that employs AMS-dating to systematically date and place these artefacts in their appropriate cultural context. Such a dating programme is but one element in the present co-operative research project involving senior researchers from ZBSA and CNRS (Centre National de la Recherce Scientifique, Paris). An initial pilot study of 18 Lyngby axes from the Stellmoor find horizon has established the immaculate research potential of this group of artefacts with respect to a \u00bbcha\u00eene op\u00e9ratoire\u00ab analysis aiming at a complete dynamic reconstruction of their manufacture and use life. 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Unfortunately both of these implements were stray finds without context. In a brief essay M\u00fcller discussed the possibility of assigning these artefacts a Palaeolithic age, but the pieces were so unique that he refrained and instead argued of a connection with the much later so-called Arctic Stone Age of Northern Finland, Sweden and Norway. Half a century later the chronological framework of the reindeer antler clubs and mattocks \u2013 now also known as Lyngby axes \u2013 was firmly established to be late glacial due to their occurrence in great numbers at the classic Ahrensburgian Stellmoor site. Henceforth they were generally assigned to the Ahrensburgian culture without further ado.<\/p>\n<p>However, the spatio-temporal distribution of the so-called Lyngby axes is somewhat different from that of Ahrensburgian lithic inventories sensu stricto. And moreover, most of the presently known specimens are single finds and some of the Danish and Swedish implements may actually equally well be attributed to the preceding Brommian culture. Accordingly, these reindeer antler artefacts (clubs, mattocks, axes) should rather be assigned to the Tanged Point Complex sensu lato. This observation is also corroborated by a recently published implement from Klappholz LA 63 which is firmly dated to the Aller\u00f8d. It is obviously important to develop a dating programme that employs AMS-dating to systematically date and place these artefacts in their appropriate cultural context.<\/p>\n<p>Such a dating programme is but one element in the present co-operative research project involving senior researchers from ZBSA and CNRS (Centre National de la Recherce Scientifique, Paris). An initial pilot study of 18 Lyngby axes from the Stellmoor find horizon has established the immaculate research potential of this group of artefacts with respect to a \u00bbcha\u00eene op\u00e9ratoire\u00ab analysis aiming at a complete dynamic reconstruction of their manufacture and use life. Based on a complete, contextual re-examination of the Lyngby axes from Stellmoor and other north European sites, we are accordingly confident that we shall succeed in answering questions pertaining to the socio-cultural importance of these implements.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h6>Themenbereiche<\/h6>\n<p>Mensch und Artefakt<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<h6>Forschungsschwerpunkte<\/h6>\n<p>Technologie \u2013 Tradition und Innovation<\/p>\n<h6>Mitarbeiter<\/h6>\n<p><strong>Leitung:<\/strong><br \/>PD Dr. habil. Berit Valentin Eriksen<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<h6>In Kooperation mit<\/h6>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zbsa.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zbsa.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zbsa.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zbsa.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zbsa.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/zbsa.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"https:\/\/zbsa.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zbsa.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zbsa.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zbsa.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}