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Asnæs Havnemark: a late Mesolithic Ertebølle coastal site in western Sjælland, Denmark

Price, T Douglas; Ritchie, Kenneth; Gron, Kurt J.; Gebauer, Anne Birgitte; Nielsen, Jens

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T Douglas Price

Kenneth Ritchie

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Dr Kurt Gron k.j.gron@durham.ac.uk
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Anne Birgitte Gebauer

Jens Nielsen



Abstract

Archaeological material was initially discovered in 1993, eroding from a small cliff on the north side of the peninsula of Asnæs near the town of Kalundborg in western Sjælland, Denmark. Ertebølle Excavations in 2007 exposed the Ertebøllwe cultural layer and obtained materials to describe the site and its contents before it was destroyed by the sea. The 22 m2 of careful excavations exposed a terrestrial midden deposit and the late Mesolithic cultural layer which had been partially preserved under a raised beach ridge. The flint tools consist primarily of projectile points, flake axes, some distally concave truncated blade knives, and a very few scrapers. There were large numbers of well-preserved faunal remains including bone fishhooks and preforms, seal bones, large bird bones, and an extraordinary amount of fish bone. A quantity of pottery was recovered in the excavations as well, including both pointed-bottom vessels and oval lamps in different sizes from the late Mesolithic and several examples of what are probably Early Neolithic ceramics. The rich occupation layer with its diverse artifactual content, including a fragment of a human jaw, documents a sizable residential settlement on the north coast of the Asnæs peninsula.

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Price, T. D., Ritchie, K., Gron, K. J., Gebauer, A. B., & Nielsen, J. (2018). Asnæs Havnemark: a late Mesolithic Ertebølle coastal site in western Sjælland, Denmark. Danish Journal of Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2018.1551979

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 21, 2018
Online Publication Date Dec 5, 2018
Publication Date Dec 5, 2018
Deposit Date Dec 7, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Danish Journal of Archaeology.
Electronic ISSN 2166-2290
Publisher Editorial board of Danish Journal of Archaeology
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2018.1551979

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