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European Archaeology Skills Exchange 2008 FULL-Kierikkikangas Stone Age Excavations, FINLAND Dates: 30th June to 10th August 2008 Number of UK participants: 8 The Kierikkikangas Stone Age Excavations are hosted by the Kierikki stone age centre. http://www.kierikki.fi/ The excavations focus on a stone-age dwelling site circa 4000-3500BC. The centre has been running an international archaeological
field school for several years. While conducting in research, participants
are also going to be interacting with tourists and site visitors; the
wooden pathway to Stone Age village goes through the site.The UK participants
will be working alongside Finnish archaeologists and students from Oulu
University. The main aim of the placement will be to complete the excavation
of a stone-age house depression and, time allowing, to complete some
test pits in the area. Stone Age village is located less than half a kilometre from Centre
and during the summer it will be open to visitors. We have at least
one person there between 10.00 - 17.00 guiding tourists. Usually our
guides do something 'stone ageish', like stone polishing or archery.
We hope you participants would be interested to do some craft and artefact
production using wood/bone/antler tools, pottery etc. Participants will be taken on field trips in the surrounding area to visit different kinds of sites and monuments. Also a visit to Oulu University's archaeology department and lab will take place. More about our lab and archaeology at http://www.oulu.fi/taida/arkeologia/labra/welcome.html Please do not hesitate to contact Leena Lehtinen (Director of Kierikki), if you have any questions about the programme for the 2008 placement in Finland.
SITE INFORMATION AND BACKGROUND YLI-II (28) KIERIKINKANGAS STONE AGE DWELLING SITE CIRCA
4000 - 3500 BC.
The Neolithic was a time of increasing population densities, social
complexification, and technological change. The shift from small, circular
dwellings to larger, more permanent rectangular multi-hearth dwellings
in the Ii river estuary 5000 years ago reflects a changing society facing
new environmental and social challenges. The research has focused on
the evolution of dwelling structures in the period 6000-4000 years ago
in the Ii estuary. We have gained a great deal of insight into the social
evolution of the region at the time of the Neolithic transition. There
are several questions which still need to be answered. How does a society
go from having small mobile groups to having large sedentary ones? How
does it go from having little or no inequality to having significant,
institutionalized ranking? Pictures of typical materials found at the site:
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