Sample name: Smakkerup Huse

Reference: T. D. Price, A. B. Gebauer, S. Ulfeldt Hede, C. Sedlacek Larsen, N. Noe-Nygaard, S. L. R. Mason, J. Nielsen, and D. Perry. 2001. Smakkerup Huse: a Mesolithic settlement in NW Zealand, Denmark. Journal of Field Archaeology 28(1/2):45-67 [ER 3939]

Lithology: sandstone

Taphonomic context: human accumulation,settlement

Archaeology: bone tools,ceramics,stone tools,other artifacts

Habitat comments: some of the "cultural material" was reworked into layer 4, but most of the cultural finds are from layer 7, a "grey sand with gravel", and layer 8, a "grey sand/gytja"
the fossils are also mostly from layer 7, with some material from layers 5, 7G, and 8
there are stone axes, blades, cores, and flakes, plus butchered bone, bone and antler tools, potsherd, "worked wood" including "pieces of dugout canoes", an "archery bow", and "vertical wooden stakes" but structures per se are not discussed

Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,marine mammals,other small mammals,birds,frogs,fishes

Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash

Sample size: 5336 specimens

Years: 1989, 1995 - 1997

Sampling comments: "Sediments were water-screened through 4 mm sieves"

Sample number: 4344

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-08-14 19:24:47

Modified: 2023-08-14 09:24:47