#Neolithic Europe

[ancientstuff]

Gobsmacked by the preservation of these.

[suburbanbeatnik]

I am low-key obsessed with Western Hunter Gatherers-- aka ancient indigenous paleo-Europeans. They had dark skin and blue eyes, like Cheddar Man-- unlike the lighter-skinned, dark-eyed Anatolian farmers who colonized Europe in Neolithic times (some of whom enslaved people of WHG descent, showing that slavery and colonization go back a long, long, loooong way).

This character here, the MFC of a story set during the Neolithic/Chalcolithic, is a mixture of WHG and Anatolian descent. Maybe I'll do something with her story someday...

This was done with Faber Castell Polychromos colored pencils in a Moleskine sketchbook.

[hedgewitchgarden]

“Cucuteni Trypillian Goddess" article source

Cucuteni-Trypillian:

The Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, also known as Cucuteni culture (Romania) or Trypillian culture (Ukraine), is a Neolithic archaeological culture which existed from approximately 4800 to 3000 BC, from the Carpathian Mountains to Moldova and Ukraine, encompassing an area of more than 35.000 square km.

[octotomo]

Man of the Linear Pottery Culture

The Linear Pottery Culture is one of the most important archaeological cultures of Neolithic Europe, lasting from around 5500 BCE to 4500 BCE and deriving its name from the pairs of parallel lines arranged in spiral or meander patterns which ornamented the culture's pottery.

[illustratus]

Stonehenge with a carriage and travellers on horseback by James Ross

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

shell necklace made of river mussels

stroked pottery culture, 4800-4400 BC

found in Šárka, Czech Republic

[victusinveritas]

[cogumellow]

across the burren // co. clare, ireland // 2006 - 2009 // ©

[historyfiles]

Anthropophagy in the Cucuteni: documented across prehistoric Europe, this including Cucuteni sites in Eastern Europe, with the oldest archaeological evidence of anthropophagy coming from a number of those sites.

[theknitpotato]

A Neolithic house in Skara Brae, Orkney Island, Scotland.

The village consisted of ten clustered houses, made of flagstones in earthen dams that provided support for the walls. The houses had stone hearths, beds, and cupboards. A primitive sewer system, with "toilets" and drains in each house, ended up in the ocean. Water was used to flush waste into a drain.

The site was occupied from roughly 3180 BC to about 2500 BC and is Europe's most complete Neolithic village. On average, each house measures 40 square metres and it seems likely that no more than 50 people lived in Skara Brae at any given time.

[ancientstuff]

Of course. Why am I not surprised.

[bumblebeeappletree]

Coppicing, a traditional forest management method dating back to the Neolithic period, involves periodically cutting trees to the ground level, taking advantage of their ability to resprout. This technique allows for cyclical harvesting of wood, providing a stable supply of firewood. Despite its decline with the advent of fossil fuels, there has been a recent resurgence in coppicing for its benefits to biodiversity and as a sustainable fuelwood source.

Credits:

Manuscript: Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Pamadillo

Animation: Pamadillo - https://www.pamadillo....

Intro/ending music: Gregor Quendel https://www.gregorquen...

Middle music: Andreas Raad / @baltimus9000

Project: ROTATE: Application of traditional knowledge to halt biodiversity loss in woodlands

Funding: Technology Agency of the Czech Republic and Norway Grants 2014–2021

Contact: NIBIO researcher Fride Høistad Schei, fride.schei@nibio.no

References:

1. - (0:41) Cutout: Lumberjack 1 https://pin.it/5m51JGWwV

2. -(1:13) Cutout: Coppiced stool https://www.treehugger...

3. -(1:18) Historic photograph: The sweet track / 7810999323691323

4. - (1:25) Historic photograph: Man coppicing https://villerscottere...

5. - (1:29) Cutout: Cooking and eating https://pin.it/VXXz5zJGe

6. - (1:32) Cutout: Tool https://digitaltmuseum...

7. - (2:21) Historic photograph: Log truck 1924 https://www.trucksales...

8. - (2:23) Photograph: Clear cutting https://www.skogbruk.n...

[taskuraketti]

So you visited Vantaa just because käärijä is from there? That’s a bit creepy

Actually I was in Finland because I participated in the excavations of the find site of the astounding neolithic clay figurine "Tuima" July 8th-12th 2020 in Jokiniemi, Vantaa and I had a great time

[raccoonskoodilypoopdungeon]

i really love reading or watching abt the daily life of an average person in the past and i keep finding out the cultures and attitudes and technologies may have changed across the ages but the people remain the same

[illustratus]

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

polish roundels (aka circular neolithic enclosure in Central Europe)

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