Smakkerup Huse
Smakkerup Huse is (not a house) a Mesolithic site of the Ertebølle culture on a 15.9 km² former fjord and today's lake, called Saltbæk Vig, north of Kalundborg on the Danish island of Zealand . Discovered in the first decade of the 20th century, the place was only excavated in the 1990s.
That of hunters and gatherers between 5000 and 4000 BC Inhabited space is important for the preservation of wooden objects. Although traces of people and residential buildings have not been preserved, remains of fish, seals and shellfish as well as terrestrial fauna such as roe deer, red deer and hawthorn fruits show that the coastal habitat was used all year round.
Evidence for a Neolithic (3900–2800 BC) use is provided by the discovery of the bones of domesticated cattle, which provided a supplement to the food that was also based on the Mesolithic sources.
Wood and bone tools including a Reuse , a sheet of elm and parts of a dugout with Axtspuren out indicate that boats were prepared on site. Personal items found at the Smakkerup Huse include an amber pendant , a painted pebble, lamps, small cups and pierced animal teeth.
literature
- TD Price et al .: Smakkerup Huse: A Mesolithic Settlement in NW Zealand, Denmark. Journal of Field Archeology 28 (1/2) 2001; p. 45-67
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saltbæk Vig is a 16.1 km² brackish water lake, six kilometers northeast of Kalundborg and the fifth largest lake in Denmark
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Coordinates: 55 ° 41 ′ 5.1 " N , 11 ° 14 ′ 8.1" E