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A genealogy of reflexivity: the skilled lithic craftsman as “scientist”
Aesthetics, nostalgia and cultural change in
the north
The past is omnipresent as sites with relics in the windblown hills in the
north Norwegian coastal area today, and must have been so also in the Early
same tactics as when discussing the Late Glacial in southern Scandinavia, I
will take a short look at the changes in material culture in the early part of
the Holocene and relate this to the concept of historicity and genealogy in
prehistory, the early part of the Holocene is characterized by three distinct
changes in material culture, named period I to III. Period I is the coloniza
tion phase characterized by the material culture of the Ahrenburgian legacy
to the early microblade phase in southern Norway and is characterized by
microblade production from conical cores and the use of local and exotic
raw materials. Phase III is characterized by the appearance of single edged
and tanged point together with transverse and oblique points in the assem
blages. We know very little about the blade industry during this period and
thus cannot discuss the details of the chaîne opératoire. It is from this last pe
riod III, however, that I will look at the possible reuse of the past as relics.
It is from this standpoint that the genealogy of the tanged point, its relation
duction can be discussed.
Figure 5. The omnipresent
past in northern Norway today.
Sites with debitage from
knapping events like this one
from the colonist period in
the Preboreal, must have been
as visible to the inhabitants of
this area in later periods of the
prehistory and may thus have
functioned as material representations
of the “sacred times
of origins”.
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