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<< Other Photo Pages >> Järvensuo I - Ancient Village or Settlement in Finland

Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 08 July 2021  Page Views: 1569

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Järvensuo I
Country: Finland
NOTE: This site is 22.032 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Latitude: 61.332090N  Longitude: 23.950690E
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Järvensuo I submitted by dodomad : This 4,000-year-old snake was fashioned from branch of wood in what is now southwest Finland. Researchers speculate it may represent a grass snake or European viper. Photo Credit: Satu Koivisto (Vote or comment on this photo)
The wetland site of Järvensuo 1 in south-west Finland was a chance discovery during the digging of a ditch in the 1950s. The discovery, in 2020, of a unique wooden snake figurine broadens the understanding of the worldview of northern peoples 4400 years ago.

The first find in the drainage ditch was a wooden paddle, which yielded a radiocarbon date of 3331–2462 BC at 95.4%; placing it in the Neolithic. More prehistoric artefacts, including a wooden scoop with a handle carved to resemble a bear's head, fishing implements and pottery were uncovered in the same ditch in the 1980s. Archaeological inspection, palaeobotanical studies and small-scale excavations followed.

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Järvensuo I
Järvensuo I submitted by dodomad : Photographing the snake shortly after discovery. The rare find "gave us all shivers," archaeologist and lead researcher Satu Kavisto recalls. Photo Credit: Satu Koivisto (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Neolithic snake sculpture unearthed in Finland by Andy B on Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Scientists are trying to understand the meaning and purpose of the unique discovery, which comes from the site of a 4,000-year-old lake shore.

Snakes have been feared, revered, and depicted in art throughout human history—whether in the pantheon of Egyptian or Aztec gods, or the ancient snake goddesses of India and the Mediterranean.

Now, the latest addition to the world’s gallery of ancient snake art comes from the waterlogged fields of Finland.

The unique, 4,000-year-old wooden artefact was discovered last year at Järvensuo I, a site in southwest Finland that encompasses a stretch of peat and mud, according to an article published in the journal Antiquity.

The 21-inch-long snake figurine was found roughly a foot and a half down in a peat layer at the site, lying alone on its side. Its features were carefully carved from a stick, and the artist took care to incorporate the sinuous curves of the branch to serpentine effect.

In an interview with National Geographic, Satu Kavisto, an archaeologist at Finland’s University of Turku and a lead author of the paper, described how the discovery of the unassuming artefact “gave us all shivers.”

More in National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2021/06/sinuous-stone-age-snake-sculpture-unearthed-in-finland

and read the paper in Antiquity:
Between earth and water: a wooden snake figurine from the Neolithic site of Järvensuo 1
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/between-earth-and-water-a-wooden-snake-figurine-from-the-neolithic-site-of-jarvensuo-1/37A0B20CDD06305435981664981EFB24#
https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.79

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