This article investigates the entanglement of environment, materiality, technology and cosmology in the Middle Mesolithic Stone Age (8300–6300 cal. BC), of the NE Skagerrak area of Eastern Norway and Western Sweden, by focusing on the manufacture of bone fishhooks. The argument made is that fishhooks are key objects for exploring the world-views of Middle Mesolithic coastal groups. Fishhooks were linked with daily subsistence, invested with much labour, and their manufacture was entwined with the hunting of ungulates that provided their raw material. This process involved the transformation of living bodies into artefacts. Thus, it is argued that these mundane objects were considered active agents in mediating the dangers and insecurities of an unpredictable maritime life.

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NE Skagerrak中部中石器沿海社区鱼钩制造的社会，仪式和宇宙学方面的内容

本文研究了挪威东部和瑞典西部的NE Skagerrak地区中石器时代的中石器时代（公元前8300-6300 cal）中环境，物质，技术和宇宙学的纠缠，重点研究了鱼钩的制造。提出的论点是，鱼钩是探索中中石器时代沿海群世界观的关键对象。鱼钩与日常生活息息相关，需要大量的劳动投入，它们的制造与狩猎提供它们的原材料的有蹄类动物交织在一起。这个过程涉及将生物转化为人工制品。因此，有人认为，这些平凡的物体被认为是调解不可预测的海洋生命的危险和不安全感的积极因素。