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Kjel Knutsson
importance for the Late Glacial hunters, indicating its relation to “webs of
amounts of reindeer corpses in dead ice hollows in the Tunnel valley close to
Ahrensburg in northern Germany, some of which seem to be part of sacri
the reindeer as central in the cosmology of the Late Glacial Ahrensburgian
reindeer hunters. She speaks of them, based on a generalizing anthropology,
human societies: “I have interpreted the reindeer as the good thing…This
implies a kinship with religious and moral connotations between man and
reindeer” (Fuglestvedt 2004:5).This interpretation is especially interesting
change in material communication we see at this time.
the reindeer in the landscape of the Brommean groups. Reindeers that may
have been part of the mythological social memory of times past when rein
deers where still a role model for human interaction in the Hamburg cul
Hawaii in 1788, be called the Captain Cook of the Bromme people; an ani
mal of mythical dimensions possibly representing one of the dramatis personae
(Sahlins 1988) of culture bearing narratives and thus the catalyst for the new
history. But exactly as the case was with Captain Cook and the Hawaiians,
the attempt to activate the content of the myths introduced cultural changes.
The reuse of the tanged point and the blade technology and the activated
ideology that they carried, formed the new present, the Ahrensburg culture.
The Hamburgian relics carried an ideology of mobility moulded on the
This may have been what triggered the expansionist character of the Ahrens
burgians and thus explain why they entered the long journey of colonization
to the north. We can see their technology/ideology as archaeological sites in
the coastal areas to the north at the onset of the Holocene. Traces of pione
ering settlements are found along the west Norwegian border (Waaraas 2001;
Fuglestvedt 2001; 2004), expanding into the Finnmark coastal areas (Tom
mesen 1996; Grydeland 2005) and as far east as the northern coast of the Kola
starts, the colonization of western and northern Scandinavia and the proces
ses whereby the Late Glacial beginnings, once again mediated by the skilled
identities through a materialized social memory, bridging millennia.
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