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2011
Housepits have a remarkably short research history as compared to Fennoscandian archaeological research on the Stone Age in general. The current understanding of the numbers and the distribution of Stone Age housepits in the Nordic countries has, for the most part, been shaped by archaeological studies carried out over the last twenty to thirty years. The main subjects of this research are Neolithic housepits, which are archaeological remains of semi-subterranean pithouses. This dissertation consists of five peer-reviewed articles and a synthesis paper. The articles deal with the development of housepits as seen in the data gathered from Finland (the Lake Saimaa area and south-eastern Finland) and Russia (the Karelian Isthmus). This synthesis expands the discussion of the changes observed in the Papers to include Fennoscandian housepit research as a whole. Certain changes in the size, shape, environmental location, and clustering of housepits extended into various cultures and ecological zones in northern Fennoscandia. Previously, the evolution of housepits has been interpreted to have been caused by the adaptation of Neolithic societies to prevailing environmental circumstances or to re-organization following contacts with the agrarian Corded Ware/Battle Axe Cultures spreading to North. This dissertation argues for two waves of change in the pithouse building tradition. Both waves brought with them certain changes in the pithouses themselves and in the practices of locating the dwellings in the environment/landscape. The changes in housepits do not go hand in hand with other changes in material culture, nor are the changes restricted to certain ecological environments. Based on current information, it appears that the changes relate primarily to the spread of new concepts of housing and possibly to new technology, as opposed to representing merely a local response to environmental factors. This development commenced already before the birth of the Corded Ware/Battle Axe Cultures. Therefore, the changes are argued to have resulted from the spreading of new ideas through the same networks that actively distributed commodities, exotic goods, and raw materials over vast areas between the southern Baltic Sea, the north-west Russian forest zone, and Fennoscandia.
Fennoscandia Archaeologica XXVI
Neolithic housepits in the River Vuoksi Valley, Karelian Isthmus, Russia – chronological changes in size and location2009 •
Estonian Journal of Archaeology
A REVIEW OF NEOLITHIC MULTI-ROOM HOUSEPITS AS SEEN FROM THE MESKÄÄRTTY SITE IN VIROLAHTI PARISH, EXTREME SOUTH-EASTERN FINLAND2008 •
On the lake settlement Serteya XIV (Velizh district of Smolensk region, Russia) studied during the 90-s of XX and beginning of XXI century there were identified several belonging to different periods “horizon habitat” with finds and remains of structures of Mesolithic – Final Neolithic or Chalcolithic (IX – first half of II Millennium cal. BC). Cultural layers of the settlement lies both in sandy coastal sediments, and in the peaty part of the lake basin. The remains of dwellings from the late stages of habitat on the settlement are discussed in the paper. This is two buildings, located on the sandy terraced shore, and one from the peaty area of the site. During the excavation and initial analysis of the findings these buildings were related to the middle and late Neolithic. These conclusions were revised due to the subsequent analysis of the ceramic material, of spatial distribution of different groups of ceramics and objects of the settlement and due getting a series of radiocarbon Dating. It was identified that the earliest of these dwellings belongs to the early Neolithic, to the final Serteyskaya – Rudnianskaya archaeological culture (4 quarter of the VI Millennium cal. BC). In the remains of the second building it was detected two different chronological stages: the first stage relates to the final Rudnianskaya archaeological culture (end of the VI Millennium cal. BC); the second, to Usviatskaya archaeological culture (late V – IV Millennium BC). As for the third dwelling, originally associated with Rudnianskaya culture, then it was confirmed final Neolithic/ Chalcolithic age (the first half of II Millennium cal. BC). Its date and cultural identity is not yet determined more precisely. The second important aspect of this research is the question of the possibility of graphic reconstruction of the Stone Age dwellings. As the cultural layers of most sites in this region are located in the sandy deposits, which are not stored any organic materials and details of buildings, so all reconstructions have tentative shape. In this case, great importance has the building found in peaty part of the settlement due to the preserved wooden details of the construction. These materials provide additional information about used tree species and the ways of its utilization.
Documenta Praehistorica, 48, 2–21.
From a concentration of finds to Stone Age architecture: the Lommi III pit-house in northwestern Russia2021 •
High-quality documentation that was made during fieldwork at archaeological sites can provide new information for old excavations even decades later. The revision of the archival data of the Stone Age settlement site Lommi III, located in the border zone of Russia and Estonia and excavated by Richard Indreko in 1940, allowed us to identify the remains of a Comb Ware Culture (4th millennium calBC) pit-house based on the concentration of artefacts marked in the field drawings. The rectangular shape and size of the concentration (ca. 7.1 x 4.4 m, depth 0.7–0.75 m) corresponds to the architectural form common in the European forest zone and has numerous analogies at the settlement sites of that time in Finland, Karelia (Russia) and Estonia. The composition and diversity of the finds and their distribution indicate the (semi-)sedentary way of life of inhabitants of the pit-house. The radiocarbon age obtained from the organic crust on pottery fragments collected in the pit-house corresponds to the first half of 4th millennium calBC.
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