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Author:   Sinead McCartan ,  Rick Schulting ,  Graeme Warren ,  Peter Woodman
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 6.60cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   4.536kg
ISBN:  

9781842173114

ISBN 10:   1842173111
Pages:   980
Publication Date:   30 May 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Mapping the European Mesolithic (S. K. Kozlowski); The Mesolithic in Europe - some retrospective perspectives (Lars Larsson); The way forward (T. Douglas Price); Ireland's place in the European Mesolithic: why it's ok to be different (Peter C. Woodman); The Mesolithic and the 21st century (Marek Zvelebil) New Lands: Introduction (Peter C. Woodman); Climate change, demography and social relations: an alternative view of the Late Palaeolithic pioneer colonization of southern Scandinavia (Felix Riede); Late Palaeolithic reindeer hunters - from a coastal perspective (Bent Nordqvist); Colonizing seascapes: comparative perspectives on the development of maritime relations in the Pleistocene/Holocene transition in north-west Europe (Hein Bjartmann Bjerck); Entering new shores. Colonization processes in early archipelagos in eastern central Sweden (Roger Wikell and Mattias Pettersson); The flint collection from the Ristola site in Lahti and the cultural contacts of the earliest Postglacial settlement of southern Finland (Henna Takala); The Sujala site in Utsjoki: Post-Swiderian in northern Lapland? (Jarmo Kankaanpaa and Tuija Rankama); Hunter-gatherers of the Istrian peninsula: the value of lithic raw material analysis to study small-scale colonization processes (Paolo Pellegatti); Early farmers on the coast: lithic procurement strategies of colonists in the eastern Adriatic (Niels H. Andreasen); The colonisation of eastern alpine territories: the Val di Non case study and the 'Regole' field camps (Trento, Italy) (Giampaolo Dalmeri, Klaus Kompatscher, Maria Hrozny Kompatscher, Anna Cusinato and Michele Bassetti)

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If, then, this elusive world of Europes last hunter-gatherers holds an unsatisfied interest, these books are for you.' -- Mike Pitts British Archaeology, May-June 2010 The papers published in this volume reveal a wonderful breadth of empirical research being carried out across Europe. The synthesis and interpretation of these sites now await us.' -- Oliver Harris European Journal of Archaeology, 14.1-2, 2011

If, then, this elusive world of Europes last hunter-gatherers holds an unsatisfied interest, these books are for you.' -- Mike Pitts British Archaeology May-June 2010 The papers published in this volume reveal a wonderful breadth of empirical research being carried out across Europe. The synthesis and interpretation of these sites now await us.' -- Oliver Harris European Journal of Archaeology, 14.1-2 2011

Author Information

Graeme Warren is Associate Professor in the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, where he is is a specialist in the archaeology of hunter-gatherers, focusing on the Mesolithic of northwest Europe. Peter Woodman is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at University College Cork. He is the leading scholar of the Irish Mesolithic. His research interests lie in the areas of the early human settlement and ecology of Ireland and Atlantic Europe and the antiquarian history of Archaeology.

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