International Workshop: The Archaeology of Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov (Lake Onega). State of research, new studies and interpretations

International Workshop: The Archaeology of Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov (Lake Onega). State of research, new studies and interpretations

St.-Petersburg, Kunstkamera Museum, 3 Universitetskaya naberezhnaya

October 12-13, 2018

The purpose of the workshop is to gather the people who have conducted studies of the YOO complex to discuss and present their research and interpretations. Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov is among the most famous prehistoric burial sites in Northern Europe. The first excavation at the site took place in 1936, and the fieldwork continued for three field seasons until the research had to be ceased due to the outbreak of World War II. A new survey of the island was organized in the 1990s, when a group of researchers from Petrozavodsk and St Petersburg launched an archaeological expedition on the island. Following these surveys, excavations of two campsites on the shores of the island were carried out from 2005 to 2007. The material from the new surveys and excavations has broadened our understanding of the Mesolithic activities on the island. At the same time, the materials from graves obtained during the older excavation phase are taken under re-analysis; several new studies have been launched and new methods applied.

FRIDAY, October 12

11:00 Excursion in the Kunstkamera Museum

12:30 Session I: Research background

Dmitriy Gerasimov, Eugeniy Kolpakov, Vladimir Shumkin

Back to the roots: The history of archaeological studies of the Mesolithic cemetery on Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov in the Onega Lake and the state of arts

Anton Murashkin, Alexey Tarasov, Konstantin German

Mesolithic sites on the Yuzhny Oleny Island in the Onega Lake

Session II: Isotopes and aDNA, human materials

Rick J Schulting, Tom Higham, Chris Bronk Ramsey, Pavel Tarasov, Valery Khartanovich, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Kristiina Mannermaa, Dimitri Gerasimov and Andrzej Weber

Complex human response to the 8.2 ka BP event in northern Europe

14:15 Coffee break

14:30Session II: Isotopes and aDNA, human materials (continuation)

Wolfgang Haak, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Franziska Aaron, Johannes Krause, Kristiina Mannermaa & Volker Heyd

Define Eastern hunter-gatherers - new ancient human genome-wide data from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov individuals

Volker Heyd, Kristiina Mannermaa,Vyacheslav Moiseyev & Dmitry V. Gerasimov,

Isotope investigation into the Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov burial ground

Alisa Zubova, Vyacheslav Moiseyev

Origin of the people from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov: dental evidence

16:30 Coffee break

16:45 Acquaintance with YOO archaeological collection

SATURDAY, October 13

11:00 Session III: YOO in a larger cultural context

Ingrid Fuglestvedt

Understanding Oleniy Ostrov through the long-term structures of Mesolithic Mentalities

Janne Saarikivi

What do we really know about the Stone Age languages of northern Europe

12:00 Coffee break

12:30 Session VI: Materials

Mikhail Zhilin

On some specific variants of bone arrowheads in the Upper Volga Mesolithic and in the Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov burial ground

Ekaterina Kashina, Ville Mantere

Elk-head staffs from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov and their widespread counterparts: old finds, new outlooks

Tuija Kirkinen, Kristiina Mannermaa

Microarchaeological studies of the red ochre samples from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov graves

Julien Treuillot

Projectiles from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov (poster)

14:00 Coffee break

14:30 Session IV: Materials (continuation)

Evgeny Girya

Traceology of bone materials from YOO - results and perspectives

Riitta Rainio

Animal tooth pendants in Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov burials – uses, meanings and set composition

Kristiina Mannermaa

Attachment technique of European elk (Alces alces) tooth pendants and kinships at Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov

Discussion

16:45 Conference dinner. Final discussion

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

* lecturers

Fuglestvedt, Ingrid, Dr., University of Oslo, Norway*

Gerasimov, Dmitriy V., Dr., Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography /Kunstkamera/ Rus.Acad.Sci., St.-Petersburg, Russia*

Girya, Eugeniy Yu., Dr., Institute for History of Material Culture Rus.Acad.Sci., St.-Petersburg, Russia*

Haak, Wolfgang, Dr., Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany*

Heyd, Volker, Prof., University of Helsinki, Finland*

Karmanov, Viktor, Dr., Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History, Komi Research Centre Rus.Acad.Sci., Syktyvkar, Russia

Kashina, Ekaterina A., Dr., State Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia*

Khartanovich, Valeri, Dr., Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography /Kunstkamera/ Rus.Acad.Sci., St.-Petersburg, Russia

Kirkinen, Tuija, University of Helsinki, Finland*

Kolpakov, Eygeniy M., Dr., Institute for History of Material Culture Rus.Acad.Sci., St.-Petersburg, Russia

Kosorukova, Natalya, Dr., University of Cerepovets, Russia

Kriiska, Aivar, Prof., University of Tartu, Estonia

Little, Aimee, Dr., University of York, UK

Macane, Aija, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Mannermaa, Kristiina, Dr., University of Helsinki, Finland*

Mantere, Ville, University of Turku, Finland

Moiseyev, Vyacheslav, Dr., Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography /Kunstkamera/ Rus.Acad.Sci., St.-Petersburg, Russia

Murashkin, Anton I., St-Petersburg State University, Russia*

Nordqvist, Kerkko, Dr., University of Helsinki, Finland

Rainio, Riitta, Dr., University of Helsinki, Finland*

Saarikivi, Janne, Prof., University of Helsinki, Finland*

Schulting, Rick, Prof., University of Oxford, UK*

Tarasov, Alexey Yu., Dr., Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History, Karelian Research Centre Rus.Acad.Sci., Petrozavodsk, Russia

Tarasov, Pavel, Dr., Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany

Wagner, Mayke, Dr., German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany

Zhilin, Mikhail G., Dr.,Prof., Institute for Archaeology Rus.Acad.Sci., Moscow, Russia*

Zubhova, Alisa, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography /Kunstkamera/ Rus.Acad.Sci., St.-Petersburg, Russia*