Among the most prominent prehistoric features in the boreal forests of northern Sweden are trapping pits or pitfalls used for hunting elk and/or reindeer. Even if often ascribed to the Viking Age and its trade in furs and other animal products, the chronology of these features has long been a matter of debate. In this article, a database of 370 dated radiocarbon samples from excavated pitfalls has been compiled and analysed using Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) modelling to create the most elaborate chronology of Swedish trapping pit systems so far. The analysis shows that the most intensive period of construction of trapping pits was in the centuries before the Viking period. This challenges previous interpretations of Viking Age resource exploitation but is in line with several other recently published studies concerned with resource exploitation, non-agrarian production, and trade connecting northern Scandinavia with inter-regional trade networks.

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迈向瑞典史前陷阱狩猎的精致年表

瑞典北部北方森林中最突出的史前特征是用于狩猎麋鹿和/或驯鹿的陷阱或陷阱。即使经常归因于维京时代及其毛皮和其他动物产品的贸易，这些特征的年表长期以来一直是一个争论的问题。在本文中，使用核密度估计 (KDE) 模型对来自已挖掘陷阱的 370 个年代久远的放射性碳样本进行了编译和分析，以创建迄今为止最详尽的瑞典陷阱坑系统年表。分析表明，诱捕坑建设最密集的时期是维京时期之前的几个世纪。