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<strong>Simple</strong> production and social strategies: do they meet?<br />

calBC Period Quartz Flint Other major raw materials<br />

1900<br />

2350<br />

3200<br />

3600<br />

4000<br />

5000<br />

7000<br />

9000<br />

Early Metal<br />

Age<br />

Late<br />

Neolithic<br />

Corded<br />

Ware<br />

Late Comb<br />

Ware<br />

Typical<br />

Comb Ware<br />

Early Comb<br />

Ware<br />

Litorina<br />

Mesolithic<br />

Ancylus<br />

Mesolithic<br />

Dominant<br />

Dominant<br />

<br />

imported (copied in Finland in<br />

quartzite and quartz)<br />

<br />

few daggers<br />

Dominant <br />

Dominant<br />

Dominant<br />

<br />

bifaces, but less raw material<br />

Fair amount of imported eastern<br />

<br />

Dominant <br />

Dominant <br />

Dominant<br />

<br />

immigrants<br />

The lithic technology, and especially the quartz technology in Eastern Fen<br />

noscandia, seems very uniform throughout the Stone Age and so far it has<br />

not been possible to distinguish regional or chronological traditions within<br />

it. This is partly due to the fact that technological studies of quartz assem<br />

<br />

that few regionally or chronologically distinct tool types seem to exist. If<br />

we accept that cultural and social traditions always affect the technology<br />

<br />

regional differences in other sections of the material culture, such as ground<br />

stone tools and pottery styles, gives reason to expect these to also be found<br />

within the quartz technology. How, then, can these differences be detected<br />

and social meaning be given to them?<br />

<br />

lems and possibilities in deriving social information from predominantly<br />

very simple lithic technologies. Its emphasis is on vein quartz technology.<br />

Our perspective on stone tool re<strong>search</strong> will largely be Fennoscandian or North<br />

European, <br />

to the south and west. The current re<strong>search</strong> paradigm in Finland is based on<br />

the work carried out in Sweden, especially in Uppsala, during the 1980s and<br />

1990s (e.g. Callahan 1987; Callahan et al. 1992; Knutsson 1988a). A similar<br />

re<strong>search</strong> orientation can also be seen in other parts of Fennoscandia (e.g.<br />

Nærøy 2000; Olofsson 2003).<br />

247<br />

Ground slate, quartzite, jasperoid<br />

Ground slate, porphyry, soapstone etc.,<br />

indigenous and imported rocks<br />

Ground diabase and other indigenous<br />

rocks<br />

Ground slate, porphyry, other indigenous<br />

rocks, imported igneous rock<br />

Ground slate, porphyry, other indigenous<br />

rocks, imported igneous rock<br />

Ground slate, porphyry, other indigenous<br />

rocks, imported igneous rock<br />

Ground and pecked slate and diabase,<br />

indigenous and imported rocks<br />

Ground and pecked slate and diabase,<br />

indigenous and imported rocks<br />

Figure 2. Generalised outline of lithic raw material use in Finland during the Stone Age<br />

and Early Metal Age.

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