International Workshop
"The Coastal Landscapes of the Mesolithic"
Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, November 16th-19th, 2016
Venue: Professorbolig, Karl Johans gate 47, 0162 Oslo
Organisers: Research group "Stone Age Coastal Landscapes" (Almut Schülke, Guro Fossum, Lucia
Koxvold, Steinar Solheim)
Wednesday, November 16th
from 12:00
Registration
14:00 Welcome and introduction to the workshop
The significance of coastal areas in the Mesolithic
14:30 Peter Moe Astrup (Moesgård Museum, Denmark)
The role of coastal exploitation in the Maglemose culture of southern
Scandinavia – Marginal or dominant?
14:55 Killian Driscoll (School of Archaeology, University College Dublin)
15:20-15:40
15:40
16:05
16:30
16:55
Revisiting old territories: models of coastal-inland mobility strategies in
Mesolithic Ireland
Coffee/tea break
Aivar Kriiska/Alar Rosentau (Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu)
Stone Age marine landscape and coastal society in Estonia
Valdis Bērziņš (Institute of Latvian History, University of Latvia)
Transformations of coast and culture: a view from the Latvian shore of the Baltic
Harald Lübke (Center for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology, Schleswig)
Geoarchaeological investigations on the early Mid-Holocene cultural
development of the south-western Baltic coastal area
Discussion
Thursday, November 17th
Coastal settlement, mobility and networks
09:00 Steinar Solheim (Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo)
Temporal variation in Mesolithic coastal settlement – a Nordic approach
09:25 Karen Wicks (School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of
Reading)
Regional gateways, vital hubs - exploring Mesolithic mobility and settlement
using recent discoveries at Rubha Port an t-Seilich, Isle of Islay, western
Scotland
09:50 Lucia Koxvold (Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo)
Chasing the perfect refit. The use and reuse of the Middle Mesolithic coastal area
of Bommestad, Southeastern Norway
10:15-10:35 Coffee/tea break
10:35 Grégor Marchand (CNRS, Université du Rennes 1)
Mesolithic Networks of Atlantic France (7th and 6th millennia BCE)
11:00 Astrid Nyland (Arkeologisk Museum, University of Stavanger)
Nodal points in a mobile coastal world? Entangled lithic procurement sites in the
Mesolithic
11:25 Discussion
11:45-13:00 Lunch
Humans and coastal environments
13:00 Heidi M. Breivik (Museum of Natural History and Archaeology, University of Trondheim)
Dynamic relations between humans and environment in Early Mesolithic
Norway
13:25 Guro Fossum (Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo)
Climate change and resource exploitation during the Middle Mesolithic/Late
Mesolithic transition. Crisis, adaptation or business as usual? A case study from
the Oslofjord area
13:50 Magda Wieckowska-Lüth/Wiebke Kirleis (Institute for Pre- and Protohistory, Kiel
University)
Palaeo-ecological investigations on human-environment interactions during the
Mesolithic - an example from Lake Skogtjern, Telemark
14:15-14:45 Coffee/tea break
Coastal areas: Practice and perception
14:45 Charlotte Damm (Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Tromsø)
Mesolithic pyro-technology: practices and perceptions in coastal Norway
15:10 Søren A. Sørensen (Museum Lolland-Falster, Denmark)
Ritual deposits in coastal areas - reflections of the Stone Age Cosmology?
15:35 Almut Schülke (Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo)
Newly frequented or revisited? Diverging concepts of historicity in the changing
coastal landscapes of Mesolithic Southeastern Norway
16:00 Discussion
evening program: Tapas-evening (booking required)
Friday, November 18th
The resources of the sea
09:00 Aikaterini Glykou/Gunilla Eriksson/Kerstin Lidén (Archaeological Research
Laboratory, University of Stockholm)
Seal exploitation in the Baltic Sea during the mid- and late Holocene
09:25 Knut Andreas Bergsvik (University Museum of Bergen)
Mesolithic fishing landscapes in western Norway
9:50-10:10 Coffee/tea break
10:10 Anja Mansrud (Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo)
A Life Aquatic: untangling social, ritual and cosmological aspects of fishhook
manufacture in Middle Mesolithic coastal communities (8300-6300 BC)
10:35 Axel Mjærum (Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo)
Stone Age fishing in Southeastern Norway
11:00 Final discussion
12:00 Lunch