This Scandinavian man lived a long life 8,000 years ago before his skull was selected for a still-inscrutable ceremony
, a museum in the nearby town of Motala, for a 2020 exhibit. The museum is housed in a 17th-century manor house built by count Ludvig Wierich Lewenhaupt—ancient Ludvig’s reverse namesake.
Hannah Graffman, head of culture and leisure for Motala, said the reconstruction would give townspeople the opportunity to see what one of its earliest residents looked like. His nickname, she concedes, is “not really a Stone-Age name, though.” Kanaljorden, which was excavated between 2009 and 2014, is a particularly fascinating site for archaeologists who study the Scandinavian Mesolithic, a period after the last glaciers retreated from the region and during which hunter gather groups from both western mainland Europe and northeast Europe began to move in around 11,000 years ago.
The remains at Kanaljorden are unlike most other Scandinavian Mesolithic burials, which tend to be burials in the ground. Here, around 6,000 B.C., the of nine men and women were deliberately placed in the lake—perhaps all mounted on stakes—and interspersed with the jawbones of several local animal species, including wild boar, bear, deer, and badger.The unusual nature of Kanaljorden struck archaeologist and sculptor
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