The Placement of the Feathers: Violence among Sub-Boreal Hunter-Gatherers from Gotland, Central Baltic Sea

Torbjörn Ahlström; Petra Molnar

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The Placement of the Feathers: Violence among Sub-Boreal Hunter-Gatherers from Gotland, Central Baltic Sea

Torbjörn Ahlström, Petra Molnar

Historical Osteology

Stockholm University

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This chapter presents the results of a study on the occurrence of cranial trauma in a sub-Neolithic maritime hunter-gatherer population on the island of Gotland, in the central Baltic Sea. The material derives from cemeteries of the Pitted Ware Culture, the last hunter-gatherers of southern Scandinavia. A total of 109 adult crania were analysed (fifty-seven males and fifty-two females). Evidence for trauma was found in 14% of the males and 7.7% of the females analysed. However, with the exception of one female cranium, all showed evidence of healing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Sticks, Stones, and Broken Bones
Subtitle of host publication	Neolithic Violence in a European Perspective
Editors	Rick J Schulting, Linda Fibiger
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Print)	978-0-19-957306-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199573066.003.0002
Publication status	Published - 2012

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Archaeology

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interpersonal violence
human skeletons
Pitted War Culture
hunter-gatherers
cranial trauma

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The Placement of the Feathers: Violence among Sub-Boreal Hunter-Gatherers from Gotland, Central Baltic Sea. / Ahlström, Torbjörn; Molnar, Petra.
Sticks, Stones, and Broken Bones : Neolithic Violence in a European Perspective. ed. / Rick J Schulting; Linda Fibiger. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

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