21. Marine Ventures in Stone Age Rock Art of Fennoscandia
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | 21. Marine Ventures in Stone Age Rock Art of Fennoscandia - Marine Ventures |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Jan Magne Gjerde; Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo; |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Archaeology |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Boats; Stone Age; Rock Art; Memory |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | In rock art research there has been/still is a general assumption and interpretation that the boats depicted in rock art are not real boats but cosmological depictions of boats. This paper will look into the marine ventures in Stone Age rock art where the boat depictions are reconsidered as part of both a real and a cosmological world. Indirect evidence of an advanced marine technology is the settlement pattern on the numerous islands along the Norwegian coast. The boat was a vital conveyance connected to hunting and fishing. Added to this, they were important for journeys in these seascapes. The oldest boat depictions date to the Late Mesolithic. The Stone Age boat scenes include driving and hunting of reindeer, halibut fishing, seal hunting and whale hunting. Whereas boats may represent cosmological journeys, this paper will focus more on the actual activities depicted in the rock art as representations of real events in the past. Among recent hunter-gatherers, there is often no clear-cut separation between the real and the imaginary in the ethnographic record. It is thus argued that Stone Age rock art compositions are intertwined representations depicting and denoting both real and cosmological boats. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 01-Nov-2016 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
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| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/24558 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.24558 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Marine Ventures |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
international, neolithic; historical; |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |