Unmasking the Maker

Identifying individual craft professionals and local, social connections in Late Neolithic southern Scandinavia

Lecture with PhD fellow Sofus S. Stenak.

At the very end of the Neolithic, flint craftsmen in southern Scandinavia and northern Germany created the most technologically complex stone tools to ever exist. The famous flint daggers present us with the most promising material for identifying and studying individual craftsmen, since their technical complexity enables multivariate morphometric comparative analysis that can compare likeness in many data dimensions. Furthermore, the type IV flint daggers are found by their thousands and are associated with graves, settlements and hoards, which enables us to study how each dagger maker was connected to various sites. 

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This lecture is part of the series "Fredagsforelæsninger".  

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