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- Title
A FIGURALLY SCULPTED BONE KNIFE FROM THE RIVER UŽAVA (WESTERN LATVIA) AND THE INVISIBLE LAMPREYS OF PREHISTORY.
- Authors
Bērziņš, Valdis
- Abstract
A sculpted Stone Age bone knife, found in the River Užava at Sise in western Latvia, is interpreted as a schematic representation of a lamprey. The river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis L.) is a migratory species distributed in a wide region of Europe, but commercial fishing continues today only in the region around the northern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea. Lamprey may have been an important food resource in prehistory as well; however, the species is not represented among faunal remains because its skeleton is cartilaginous and does not preserve archaeologically. The keratinous teeth do survive under special conditions, and these could in future provide direct evidence of prehistoric lamprey exploitation.
- Subjects
STONE Age; PREHISTORIC knives; LAMPREYS
- Publication
Journal of the Institute of Latvian History / Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls, 2018, Issue 107, p5
- ISSN
1025-8906
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22364/lviz.107.01