Animals Make identities. The Social Bioarchaeology of Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic Cemeteries in North-East Europe

Project Information

AMI

Grant agreement ID: 864358

DOI

10.3030/864358

EC signature date 26 February 2020

Start date 1 April 2020

End date 31 March 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 992 839,00

EU contribution

€ 1 992 839,00

Coordinated by

HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
Finland

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Two microparticle analyses of Stone Age quartz tools in Finland

Author(s): Petro Pesonen, Tuija Kirkinen
Published in: Fennoscandia Archaeologica, 2023, ISSN 2737-0135
Publisher: The Archaeological Society of Finland
DOI: 10.61258/fa.138515

Radiocarbon dating from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov cemetery reveals complex human responses to socio-ecological stress during the 8.2 ka cooling event

Author(s): Rick J. Schulting, Kristiina Mannermaa, Pavel E. Tarasov, Thomas Higham, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Valeri Khartanovich, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Dmitriy Gerasimov, John O´Shea, Andrzej Weber
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 6, 2021, Page(s) 155-162 Year of publication 2021 *, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01628-4

Mobility and community at Mesolithic Lake Onega, Karelia, north-west Russia: insights from strontium isotope analysis

Author(s): Rebekka Eckelmann, Laura Arppe, Alexey Tarasov, Łukasz Pospieszny, Lukáš Ackerman, Volker Heyd, Dmitry Gerasimov, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Vanessa Fairbanks, Corrie Hyland, Kristiina Mannermaa
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 17, 2025, ISSN 1866-9557
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02129-8

Bronze age Northern Eurasian genetics in the context of development of metallurgy and Siberian ancestry

Author(s): Ainash Childebayeva, Fabian Fricke, Adam Benjamin Rohrlach, Lei Huang, Stephan Schiffels, Outi Vesakoski, Kristiina Mannermaa, Lena Semerau, Franziska Aron, Konstantin Solodovnikov, Marina Rykun, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Valery Khartanovich, Igor Kovtun, Johannes Krause, Sergey Kuzminykh, Wolfgang Haak
Published in: Communications Biology, Issue 7, 2024, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06343-x

Let’s groove: attachment techniques of Eurasian elk (Alces alces) tooth pendants at the Late Mesolithic cemetery Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov (Lake Onega, Russia)

Author(s): Kristiina Mannermaa, Riitta Rainio, Evgeny Yu. Girya, Dmitry V. Gerasimov
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 13/1, 2021, ISSN 1866-9557
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-020-01237-5

An engraved tooth pendant from Donkalnis, western Lithuania: a rare discovery in a Mesolithic burial

Author(s): Adomas Butrimas, Marius Iršėnas, Aija Macāne, Kristiina Mannermaa, Kerkko Nordqvist, Tomas Rimkus
Published in: Antiquity, Issue 99, 2025, ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher: Antiquity Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2025.14

Combining Residue and Macroscopic Use-wear Analysis of Quartz Objects in Kraakanmäki 3 Late Neolithic Settlement Site, Western Finland

Author(s): Tuija Kirkinen, Tytti Juhola, Olli Eranti, Teemu Väisänen, Johanna Seppä, Vesa Laulumaa
Published in: Fennoscandia Archaeologica, 2023, Page(s) 57-78, ISSN 2737-0135
Publisher: The Archaeological Society of Finland
DOI: 10.61258/fa.130079

Tracing the Materiality of Feathers in Stone Age North-Eastern Europe

Author(s): Kristiina Mannermaa, Tuija Kirkinen
Published in: Current Swedish Archaeology, Issue 28, 2020, Page(s) 23-46, ISSN 1102-7355
Publisher: Svenska Arkeologiska Samfundet, Goteborgs universitet
DOI: 10.37718/csa.2020.02

More than sixty years of osteoarchaeological research at the University of Helsinki

Author(s): Kristiina Mannermaa
Published in: Iskos Celebrating 100 Years of Archaeology at the University of Helsinki. Past, Present, and Future, Issue 2, 2023, ISSN 0355-3108
Publisher: The Finnish Antiquarian Society

Doing landscape: sensorial and artistic approaches to Donkalnis and Spiginas Mesolithic–Neolithic ritual sites in western Lithuania

Author(s): Marja Ahola, Katri Lassila, Kristiina Mannermaa
Published in: Time and Mind, 2024, Page(s) 1-25, ISSN 1751-696X
Publisher: Berg Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/1751696x.2024.2338055

Preservation of microscopic fur, feather, and bast fibers in the Mesolithic ochre grave of Majoonsuo, Eastern Finland

Author(s): Tuija Kirkinen ,Olalla López-Costas,Antonio Martínez Cortizas,Sanna P. Sihvo,Hanna Ruhanen,Reijo Käkelä,Jan-Erik Nyman,Esa Mikkola,Janne Rantanen,Esa Hertell,Marja Ahola,Johanna Roiha,Kristiina Mannermaa
Published in: PlosOne, Issue 19326203, 2022, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0274849

Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers

Author(s): Cosimo Posth, He Yu, Ayshin Ghalichi, Hélène Rougier, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Yilei Huang, Harald Ringbauer, Adam B. Rohrlach, Kathrin Nägele, Vanessa Villalba-Mouco, Rita Radzeviciute, Tiago Ferraz, Alexander Stoessel, Rezeda Tukhbatova, Dorothée G. Drucker, Martina Lari, Alessandra Modi, Stefania Vai, Tina Saupe, Christiana L. Scheib, Giulio Catalano, Luca Pagani, Sahra Talamo, Helen Fewlass, L
Published in: Nature, 2023, ISSN 1476-4687
Publisher: Nature Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05726-0

Prehistoric Pendants as Instigators of Sound and Body Movements: A Traceological Case Study from Northeast Europe, c. 8200 cal. BP

Author(s): Rainio, R., Mannermaa, K., Giria, E., Gerasimov, D.
Published in: Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Issue Volume 31 , Issue 4 , November, 2021, Page(s) 639 - 660, ISSN 0959-7743
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0959774321000275

First stage in technological production of Stone Age animal teeth pendants: evidence from Zvejnieki (Latvia) and wider social implications

Author(s): Aija Macāne, Kerkko Nordqvist, Kristiina Mannermaa, Andy Needham, Diederik Pomstra, Gabriel Cifuentes Alcobendas, Jānis Reblis, Ilga Zagorska, Aimée Little
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 17, 2025, ISSN 1866-9557
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-025-02260-0

First evidence of human bone pendants from Late Mesolithic Northeast Europe

Author(s): Mannermaa, K., Malyutina, A., Zubova, A., Gerasimov, D.
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 43, 103488, 2022, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103488

Book chapters (2)

A life history of a female hunter from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov (Karelia, Russia)

Author(s): Mannermaa, K., Arppe, L., Batanina, O., Hardy, K., Eckelmann, R., Kirkinen, T., Macane, A., Roiha, J., & Treuillot, J.
Published in: Monographs of the Archaeological Society of Finland 11, Issue 11, 2023
Publisher: The Archaeological Society of Finland

More than sixty years of osteoarchaeological research at the University of Helsinki

Author(s): Kristiina Mannermaa
Published in: Iskos Celebrating 100 Years of Archaeology at the University of Helsinki. Past, Present, and Future, Issue 27, 2023
Publisher: The Finnish Antiquarian Society