ABSTRACT ‘Climate’ is rarely experienced directly – contrary to day-to-day ‘weather’ and ‘seasons’ that manifest in landscapes (‘weather-worlds’). This paper elaborates the role of sea ice and sea ice hunting outside the lateglacial Doggerland beaches. The winter–spring sea ice was a seasonal extension of the continental plains, and a potential meeting ground for the human hunters of the plains and the mammals of the sea. Here, the hunters could observe and experience that seals were easy prey and that seals were similar to the familiar terrestrial megafauna; providing meat and blood, bone, skin, bladders and sinews, and ample supplies of fat (blubber) that also could heat dwellings. Seals on the ice could be hunted with similar methods and equipment as terrestrial animals – without the need of boats and the risks of cold, open sea. The Doggerland sea ice was a meeting ground of land and sea that could have been imperative in the development of marine foraging and the subsequent colonisation of Scandinavian seascapes. Levy Bryant’s ‘Machine Oriented Ontology’ may be instrumental to envision the sea ice and its potential for the lateglacial hunters in Northwest Europe.

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“海冰机”能对其人民做什么？关于晚冰期 Doggerland、海洋觅食和斯堪的纳维亚海景的殖民化

摘要 “气候”很少被直接体验——与在景观（“天气世界”）中表现出来的日常“天气”和“季节”相反。本文阐述了海冰的作用以及晚冰期多格兰海滩外的海冰狩猎。冬春季节的海冰是大陆平原的季节性延伸，是平原人类猎人和海洋哺乳动物的潜在交汇地。在这里，猎人们可以观察和体验到，海豹是容易捕食的动物，海豹与我们熟悉的陆生巨型动物群相似；提供肉和血、骨头、皮肤、膀胱和肌腱，以及充足的脂肪（鲸脂），也可以加热住宅。可以使用与陆生动物类似的方法和设备来捕杀冰上的海豹——不需要船只，也不需要寒冷的公海风险。Doggerland 海冰是陆地和海洋的交汇点，对于海洋觅食的发展和随后斯堪的纳维亚海景的殖民化可能是必不可少的。Levy Bryant 的“面向机器的本体论”可能有助于设想海冰及其对西北欧晚冰期猎人的潜力。