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Anders Högberg
The purpose of this text is to look into how similar actions, repeated over
time on a beach ridge along the Scanian coast, may have created places of
ited on the beach ridge (called Järavallen) during the period from the Early
Neolithic until the Early Bronze Age, c 4000–1700 BC. The preforms repre
sent thousands of individual actions, all of which were repeatedly carried out
Fig. 1. A selection of preforms from the
beach ridges. Photo by Malmö Museum.
The beach ridge Järavallen and the
production sites
coast of Scania in the south of Sweden. It is situated around 5 metres above
of the Litorina sea. The ridge mainly consists of stone, gravel and sand and
tions along the ridge, there are natural deposits of large amounts of high
et al. 2001). These places are named Sibbarp, Barse
bäck and Östra Torp (Fig. 2).
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Fig. 2. Map of Sweden and
Scania with the sites Sibbarp,
Barsebäck and Östra Torp
indicated.