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Màlsnes 1: An Early Post-Glacial Coastal Site in Northern Norway

by H P Blankholm

Màlsnes 1 is an early post-glacial site dating to c.9500 BP, amd located at the outlet of the Bardu Màlselv river system in Troms county, north of the Arctic circle, in northern Norway. It was discovered in 1998 and several years of meticulous excavation followed. This book reports on the results of the excavations. Detailed information on the lithic artefacts - their raw materials and typology - is presented along with an analysis and interpretation of their spatial arrangements. The economy, seasonality, and several models for the settlement pattern are examined and followed by a discussion of the pioneering settlement within its wider cultural and Scandinavian and northern European context. This book provides the reader with unprecedented information and is a very useful companion for all those interested in Scandinavian Stone Age archaeology in general and northern Fennoscandia and Norway in particular. 120p, 76 b/w illus, 21 tabs (Oxbow Books 2008)

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"...an important site and this report is a welcome addition to the few published Mesolithic sites from northern Norway."

Tuija Rankama
Antiquity vol. 83.321 (September 2009)

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