Overview

Over the last 20 years a vast number of new and important Swedish Mesolithic sites have been excavated and published in different ways as articles, books and site reports. As yet there has been no study that tries to bring the loose ends together and so the main task of this important new work by one of Sweden's leading prehistorians is to provide an extensive overview of some of the main sites and results. The timespan is long: c. 10 000-4000 BC and the amount and choice of data very large so rather than attempt to describe everything in detail Mats Larsson focuses on a series of fundamental research perspectives concerning Mesolithic lifeways and settlement patterns and chooses key sites to illustrate them. The emphasis is on southern and middle Sweden, though the country's northern regions are in no way forgotten. This companion piece to the author's recent successful volume Paths Towards a New World: Neolithic in Sweden, written for a general audience is also a must for all those archaeologists interested in the Mesolithic of Northern Europe and would be students of prehistory.

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Author:   Mats Larsson
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781785703850

ISBN 10:   1785703854
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   31 January 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction 1. The Mesolithic in Sweden: an introduction  Mesolithic on the move   2. Hunters in the Forest  Agerödmosse (bog) Settlement patterns and hunting/collecting strategies Life and death The end of the Mesolithic in Scania Segebro-an Early Atlantic Settlement at the coast Ageröd V-An Atlantic bog site Tågerup- Settlement and Burials   Yngsjö and Årup The Last Hunters- The Ertebølle Culture   Soldattorpet, Limhamn Löddesborg   Tågerup   Bredasten   Yngsjö   3. BLEKINGE: NEW DISCOVERIES  Bro 597  Damm 6  Norrje Sunnansund: Tons of fish   4. HUNTERS ALONG THE KALMAR STRAIT AND ON ÖLAND Tingby, a much discussed house New excavations at Tingby Concluding remarks  Öland 5. SEALHUNTERS ON GOTLAND  Taking care of the dead 6. INTO THE FOREST: EARLY HUNTERS IN THE SOUTH SWEDISH INLAND 7. PIONEERS: HUNTERS IN EASTERN MIDDLE SWEDEN  Östergötland. New discoveries   The Mjölby sites Mörby Sand covered houses   Högby   Storlyckan: Another site with a dwelling structure    The hut    Spatial distribution   Western Östergötland, Lake Tåkern   Sites around Linköping   Life and death around Motala   Death in the Lake   The Late Mesolithic in Östergötland   Pioneering hunters: some remarks 8. PIONEERS IN THE EARLY ARCHIPELAGOS OF EASTERN MIDDLE SWEDEN   Early sites   Late sites 9. MOVING INLAND 10. THE WESTERN PART OF SWEDEN   The earliest sites   Hensbacka Culture   Inland sites   Sandarna Culture   The dead   The Late Mesolithic    Lihult    Lihult inland sites    Transverse arrowheads   11. MOVING NORTH   Leksand   Along the coast-further north 12. PIONEERS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTHERN SWEDEN   The earliest sites   Later Mesolithic Epilogue References

Reviews

Distilling the scattered field notes and site reports of the entire Swedish Mesolithic (9700-4000 BC) into a slim volume is an impressive task never previously accomplished. Yet with his simple and salient writing style, Larsson - one of the country's premier prehistorians - manages just that, employing a chronological and thematic approach to make sense of the diverse stone tools, bone-filled pits, and rogue post-holes peppered through Sweden's dense forests and Baltic shoals. Current World Archaeology

Distilling the scattered field notes and site reports of the entire Swedish Mesolithic (9700-4000 BC) into a slim volume is an impressive task never previously accomplished. Yet with his simple and salient writing style, Larsson - one of the country's premier prehistorians - manages just that, employing a chronological and thematic approach to make sense of the diverse stone tools, bone-filled pits, and rogue post-holes peppered through Sweden's dense forests and Baltic shoals. * Current World Archaeology *

Author Information

Mats Larsson is Professor of Archaeology at Linnaeus University in Kalmar/Växjö in Sweden. He studied in Lund and wrote his dissertation on the Early Neolithic of southernmost Sweden. This is a theme he has developed over the years in books and articles. His other main interest is the late part of the Middle Neolithic in Sweden. Over the years he has cooperated with leading British Archaeologists including Julian Thomas, Mike Parker-Pearson and Richard Bradley.

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