This article presents a comparison of material records of two nearby regions on the coast of the Bothnian Bay. The timeframe is 5300–2000 BCE. The focus is on regional differences, which indicate a schizmogenesis of communal identities. The study calls for a reorientation of research concerning Fennoscandian prehistory. More attention should be paid to localized prehistories. It is argued that when prehistoric society is used as a fundamental group category, especially in the context of forager communities, the modern concept of state society distorts the underlying framework. Focusing on the regional level by constructing local prehistoric narratives limits the anachronistic effect and allows the proliferation of local communal identities. Such local prehistories, when collated and compared, offer a pathway to understanding prehistoric stateless societies, which are misrepresented by simplistic material cultural zones and the inherent homogeny ingrained within the concept of society. In this paper, the analysis is focused on practices representing local traditions. Two divergent themes that arise from the local prehistoric narratives are the Late Mesolithic use of local stone materials and regional changes in Neolithic dwelling forms.

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社会以外的社区：北欧波特尼亚弧地区的当地史前知识的差异

本文比较了波特尼亚湾沿岸两个附近地区的物质记录。时间范围是公元前5300-2000年。重点是区域差异，这表明共同身份的分裂。该研究要求重新调整有关芬诺斯堪的亚史前研究的方向。应该更加注意本地化的史前史。有人认为，当史前社会被用作基本的群体类别时，特别是在觅食社区的情况下，现代的国家社会概念扭曲了基本框架。通过构建当地的史前叙事集中于区域层面，限制了过时的影响，并允许当地社区身份的扩散。整理和比较这样的当地史前史，提供了一种理解史前无状态社会的途径，这些历史社会被简单化的物质文化区和根深蒂固的内在同质性所歪曲。在本文中，分析着重于代表当地传统的实践。当地史前叙事产生的两个不同主题是中石器时代晚期对当地石材的使用和新石器时代住宅形式的区域变化。