trapanatans.lv

Past human environments:

a source page on studies in Latvia

 

This site has a bibliography of published sources on past human environments in Latvia: encompassing a variety of themes at the interface of archaeology and the natural sciences. It is proposed to extend the list in future and regularly update it. 

The name of the European water chestnut, Trapa natans L., has been chosen for its symbolic significance. Now a rare and protected species in this part of Europe, this water plant produces carbohydrate-rich nuts that made it an important food plant in the more favourable conditions at the climatic optimum – and, in consequence, a subject of mutual interest for botanists, Quaternary geologists and prehistorians.      

 

Contents

·         General accounts of Latvian prehistory

·         Publications on particular periods, cultures and sites, also referring to the human environment

·         Special topics on human environment

·         Study areas: environmental perspectives on settlement and economy

·         Bioarchaeology

·         Food procurement: hunting, fishing and gathering

·         Food production: agriculture and animal husbandry

·         Food processing and food-related artefacts

·         Non-food resources: acquisition and processing

·         Dendrochronology and timber export

 

Literature in Latvian / Literatűra latvieđu valodâ

Trapa natans

 

 

General accounts of Latvian prehistory

Vasks A. Inside Latvian archaeology: research and conclusions // Inside Latvian Archaeology. – Göteborg, 1999. – P. 3–88.

Latvijas senâkâ vçsture 9. g. t. pr. Kr. – 1200. g. – Rîga, 2001. – 463 lpp. [English summary: The Prehistory of Latvia]

 

Publications on particular periods, cultures and sites, also referring to the human environment

Eberhards G., Zagorska I. The environment and the earliest settlement of Latvia, East Baltic // Recent studies in the Final Palaeolithic of the European Plain: Proceedings of a U.I.S.P.P. Symposium, Stockholm, 14–17 October 1999. – Hojbjerg, 2002. – P. 85—90.

Loze, I. The Early Neolithic in Latvia. The Narva Culture // Acta Archaeologica. – K¸benhavn, 1993. – Vol. 63. – P. 119–140.

Zagorska I. The earliest settlement of Latvia // PACT: Environmental and Cultural History of the Eastern Baltic Region. – Rixensart (Belgium), 1999. – Vol. 57. – P. 131–156.

Zagorska I. The Mesolithic in Latvia // Acta Archaeologica. – 1993. –  Vol. 63. – P. 97–117.  

Zagorska I. The ‘Gold Coast’ of the Gulf of Riga // Amber in Archaeology. – Riga, 2003. – P. 108–115.

Ванкина Л.  Торфяниковая стоянка Сарнате. – Рига, 1970. – 176 С.

Граудонис Я. Я. Латвия в эпоху поздней бронзу и раннего железа. Рига, 1967.

Денисова Р. Я., Граудонис Я. Я., Гравере Р. У. Кивуткалнский могильник эпохи бронзы. – Рига, 1985. – 165 С.

Долуханов П. М., Левковская Г. М. История развития природной среды и первобытных культур на востоке Латвии // Палинология голоцена. – Новосивирск, 1971. – С. 53–62. 

Загорскис Ф. А., Эберхардс Г. Я., Стелле В. Я., Якубовская И. Я. Оса – многослойное поселение эпох мезолита и неолита на Лубанской низине (Латвийская ССР) // Археология и палеогеография мезолита и неолита Русской равнины. – Москва, 1984. – C. 55–67.

Лозе И. A. Поздний неолит и ранняя бронза Лубанской равнины. – Рига, 1979. – 203 C.

Лозе И. А., Лийва А. А., Стелле В. Я., Эверхардс Г. Я., Яакубовская И. Я. Звидзе – Многослойное поселение эпох мезолита и неолита на Лубанской низине (Латвийская ССР) // Археология и палеогеография мезолита и неолита Русской равнины. – Москва, 1984. – С. 40–55.      

Лозе И. A. Поселения каменного века Лубанской низину. Мезолит, ранний и средний неолит. – Рига, 1988. – 211 С.

Мугуревич Э. Восточная Латвия и соседние земли в X–XIII вв. – Рига, 1965. – 144 С.

Шноре Э. Асотское городище. – Рига, 1961. – С. 5–168.

 

Special topics on human environment

Bçrziňđ V. The conditions for travel and transport in the Stone Age // De temporibus antiquissimis ad honorem Lembit Jaanits. – Tallinn, 2000. – P. 27–48.

 

Study areas: environmental perspectives on settlement and economy

Loze I. Stone Age settlements in the Lake Lubâns Wetland in Latvia, and subsistence strategies of the population // Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Section A. – 2000. – No. 3/4. – P. 109–122.

Murniece S., Kalnina L., Berzins V., Grasis N. Environmental change and prehistoric human activity in western Kurzeme, Latvia // PACT: Environmental and Cultural History of the Eastern Baltic Region. – Rixensart (Belgium), 1999. – Vol. 57. – P. 35–69.

Segliňđ V., Kalniňa L., Lâcis A. The Lubans Plain, Latvia, as a reference area for long term studies of human impact on the envionment // PACT: Environmental and Cultural History of the Eastern Baltic Region. – Rixensart (Belgium), 1999. – Vol. 57. – P. 105–130.

Левковская Г. М. Природа и человек в среднем голгцене Лубвнской низины. – Рига, 1987. – 94 С.

Лозе И. А., Якубовская Т. В. Флора памятников каменного века Лубанской низины // Известия Академии наук Латвийской ССР. – 1984. – No. 5. – С. 85-94.

Эберхардс Г. Колебания древнего озера Лубанас и заселение его берегов человеком // Изотопные и геохимические методы в биологии, геологии и археологии. Тез. докл. регионального совещания, Лохусалу, 13–15 октябра 1981 года. – Тарту, 1981. – С. 182–186.

 

Bioarchaeology

Eriksson G., Lőugas L., Zagorska I. Stone Age hunter–fisher–gatherers at Zvejnieki, northern Latvia: radiocarbon, stable isotope and archaeozoology data // Eriksson G. Norm and difference: Stone Age dietary practice in the Baltic region. – Stockholm, 2003. Paper III, p. 1–26.

Eriksson G., Zagorska I. Do dogs eat like humans? Marine stable isotope signals in dog teeth from inland Zvejnieki // Mesolithic on the Move: Papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe, Stockholm 2000. – Oxford, 2003. – P. 160–168.

Gerhards G., Zariňa G., Zagorska I. Burial traditions in the East Baltic Mesolithic // Mesolithic on the Move, Papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe, Stockholm 2000. – Oxbow Books – 2003. – P. 558–562.

Зариня Г. В. Узколицый антропологический компонент в краниологическом материале латышей Аугшземе 16-19 вв. // Республиканская научно теоретическая конференция молодых ученых и специалистов по общественным наукам, посвященная 70-летию Великой Октябрьской Социалистической революциию – Рига,  1987. –  С. 236–238.

Зариня Г. В. Антропологический состав населения Аугшземе 16-19 вв.// Балты, славяне, прибалтийские финны. Этногенетические процесы. – Рига, 1990. –  С.  109–123.   

Zariňa G. Aspects of the palaeodemography of Latvia’s 13th–17th century inhabitants // Scientific Conference ‘Museum Anatomiae Jacobi Primani – 80’. – Riga, 2000. – P. 11.

Zariňa G. Paleodemography of the 13th–17th century inhabitants of Riga // Scripta periodica. – Sofia, 2000. – Nr. 2. – P. 161.

Zariňa G. Main tendencies in paleodemography of Latvia 7th–18th century population // The Professor Gaston Victor Backman scientific Conference. – Rîga, 2003. – P. 86–87.

Zariňa G. Main tendencies in paleodemography of the inhabitants of Latvia (7th millennium BC – 18th  century AD) // International scientific conference ‘200  years of Lithuanian anthropology: modern trends, history, relation to medical practice and humanities’. – Vilnius, 2004. – P. 58.

 

Food procurement: hunting, fishing and gathering

Lőugas L. Post-Glacial Development of Vertebrate Fauna in Estonian Water Bodies. A Palaeozoological Study. – Tartu, 1997. – 184 P.

Lőugas L. Postglacial invasions of the harp seal (Pagophilus gorenlandicus Erxl. 1777) into the Baltic Sea // Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Section B. – Vol. 52. – No 1/2. – P. 63–69.

Mugurçvičs Ç. Forest animals and hunting in medieval Livonia // Centre. Region. Periphery. Medieval Europe Basel 2002: [3rd International Conference of Medieval and Later Archaeology, 10–15 September 2002, Basel (Switzerland): Preprinted Papers]. – Hertingen, 2002. – Vol. 1. – P. 177–181.

Zagorska I. Sea Mammal Hunting Strategy in the Eastern Baltic // Lietuvos arheologija 19: skiriama Rimutes Rimantienes 80-mečiui. – Vilnius, 2000. – P. 275–285.

Загорска И. Рыболовство и морской промысел в каменном веке на территории Латвии // Рыболовство и морской промысел в эпоху мезолита – раннего металла. – Ленинград, 1991. – C. 39–64.

Паавер К. Л. Формирование териофауны и изменчивость млекопитающих Прибалтики в голоцене. – Тарту, 1965. – 511 C.

Слока Я. Рыбы каменного века стоянок Лубанской низменности // Известия Академии наук Латвийской ССР. – 1975. – No. 8. – C. 65–73.

 

Food production: agriculture and animal husbandry

Bçrziňđ V. Aspects of settlement and agriculture in the later prehistoric and early historical periods in Kurzeme, western Latvia // PACT: Environmental and Cultural History of the Eastern Baltic Region. – Rixensart (Belgium), 1999. – Vol. 57. – P. 255–266.

Loze I. The Adoption of Agriculture in the Area of Present-Day Latvia (The Lake Lubana Basin) // Beyond Balkanization. – Poznan, 1998. – P. 59–84.

Vasks A., Kalnina L., Ritums R. The introduction and Pre-Christian history of farming in Latvia // Environmental and Cultural History of the Eastern Baltic Region. – Rixensart (Belgium), 1999. – Vol. 57. – P. 291–304.

 

Food processing and food-related artefacts

Bebre V. Drinking horns in Latvia (3rd–13th centruy) // Art, Applied Art and Symbols in Latvian Archaeology. – Rîga, 2003. – Vol. 2. – P. 18–35.

 

Non-food resources: acquisition and processing

Bçrziňđ V. Amberworking as a specialist occupation at the Sârnate Neolithic site, Latvia // Amber in Archaeology. – Riga, 2003. – P. 34–46.

David E.  The Mesolithic Zvejnieki site (Latvia) in its European context: preliminary results delivered by a technological study of the bone and antler industry // Eesti Arheologia Ajakiri. – 2003. – No. 7/2. –  99–122.           

Loze I. Neolithic amber ornaments in the eastern part of Latvia // Przeglŕd Archeologiczny. – 1975. – Tom. 23. – P. 49–82.

Loze I. Stone Age amber in the Eastern Baltic // Proceedings in Archaeology of the Second International Conference on Amber in Archaeology. Liblice, 1990. – Praha, 1993. – P. 129–140.

Loze I. Middle Neolithic amber workshops in the Lake Lubâns Depression // Amber in Archaeology. – Riga, 2003. – P. 72–89.

Svarâne D. Archaeological evidence of metalworking from medieval Riga // The Medieval Town in the Baltic. Hanseatic History and Archaeology, II: Proceedings of the third and fourth seminar, Tartu, Estonia, 12th–13th June 1999 and 8th–10th June 2000. – Tartu, 2002. – P. 99–108.

Vasks A. Early metallurgy in Latvia // I bronzi antichi: Produzione e tecnologia: Atti del XV Congresso Internazionale sui Bronzi Antichi, organizzato dall’Universita di Udine, sed di Gorizia, Grado-Aquilieia, 22–26 maggio 2001. – Montagnac, 2002. – P. 35–39.

Zagorska I., Zagorskis F. The bone and antler inventory from Zvejnieki II site, Latvian SSR // The Mesolithic in Europe. – Edinburgh, 1989. – P. 414–423.

Zariňa A. Die Spinngerätfunde aus dem Gräberfeld Salaspils Laukskola (10.–13. Jh.) // Textilien aus Archäologie und Geschichte: Festschrift für Kauls Tidow. – Neumünster, 2003. – S. 104–109.

Васкс А. Керамика эпохи поздней бронзы и раннего железа Латвии. – Рига, 1991. – 198 C.

Лозе И. Новый центр обработки яантаря эпохи неолита в Восточной Прибалтике // Советская археология. – 1969. – Nо. 3 – с. 124–134.

 

Dendrochronology and timber export

Zunde M. Wood export from medieval Riga and possibilities for dendrochronological dating // Proceedings of the International Conference: Dendrochronology and Environmental Trends: 17–21 June, 1998, Kaunas, Lithuania. – Kaunas, 1998. – P. 67–74.

Zunde M. Timber export from Old Riga and its impact on dendrochronological dating in Europe // Dendrochronologia. – 1998/1999. – Vol. 16–17. – P. 119–130.

 

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