부산대학교 도서관

The hunter-fisher-gatherers of fourth--to third-millennium BC north-eastern Europe shared many characteristics traditionally associated with Neolithic and Chalcolithic agricultural societies. Here, the authors examine north-eastern European hunter-fisher-gatherer exchange networks, focusing on the Russian Karelian lithic industry. The geographically limited, large-scale production of Russian Karelian artefacts for export testifies to the specialised production of lithic material culture that was exchanged over 1000km from the production workshops. Functioning both as everyday tools and objects of social and ritual engagement, and perhaps even constituting a means of long-distance communication, the Russian Karelian industry finds parallels with the exchange systems of contemporaneous European agricultural populations. Keywords: Russia, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, hunter-fisher-gatherers, lithic technology, craft specialisation, exchange
Introduction The axes and adzes of the so-called Russian (or East) Karelian type have long been recognised in the study of north-eastern European prehistory due to their distinctive appearance and [...]