Early Mesolithic
Mesolithic Europe : glimpses of another world
... Blankholm this volume notes that discussions of southern Scandinavian social co~nplexityfrequently compare late Mesolithic coastal sites with early Mesolithic interior sites with early M[r] ...
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The Mesolithic hunters of the Trentino: a case study in hunter gatherer settlement and subsistence
... Colbricon was the first of a large number of sites to be discovered at this altitude in the Trentino region (see Figure 5.1). Previously there had been little evidence for high altitude Mesolithic exploitation. ...
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Prehistoric People of the Pennines : Reconstructing the Lifestyles of Mesolithic Hunter-gatherers on Marsden Moor
... In Early Mesolithic and Neolithic sites we often find ‘scrapers’ – round flakes which have been worked to make the edges steep and ...Late Mesolithic upland Pennine sites, and this has led people to ...
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The bashful and the boastful : prestigious leaders and social change in Mesolithic Societies
... within Early Mesolithic deposits at Howick certainly imply that social relationships were open and relaxed within the larger group, with no apparent requirement to be physically (or emotionally) ‘protected’ ...
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Implements of bone and antler: A Mesolithic tradition continued.
... old Mesolithic tradition or re-invention of a formerly employed ...purely Mesolithic, even Early ...the Early Mesolithic and the use of this technique at Schipluiden could imply that ...
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Mesolithic Northern England : Environment, Population and Settlement
... Late Mesolithic, there appears to be a paucity of lowland sites compared to those in the ...three Early Mesolithic sites come from this zone there are no Late Mesolithic sites (figure ...
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Mesolithic Northern England : Environment, Population and Settlement
... Late Mesolithic of Eastern Denmark, these zones being only about 45 km in ...the Early Mesolithic and over 15 identifiable groups in the Late ...Late Mesolithic of France, and in Britain ...
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Mesolithic Northern England : Environment, Population and Settlement
... of Early and Late Mesolithic sites in ...from Early to the Late Mesolithic, particularly in the ...the Early Mesolithic are derived from the Lincolnshire and Yorkshire Wolds ...
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Mesolithic Northern England : Environment, Population and Settlement
... the Mesolithic (in any case after initial colonisation has been shown to have taken place), even where distinctive changes in technology take ...For Mesolithic northern England, Myers (1986; 1989) does ...
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Mesolithic Northern England : Environment, Population and Settlement
... hand, Early Mesolithic lowland forests would have been dominated by open woodlands of shade intolerant birch, but by the Initial Late Mesolithic such shade intolerant species become restricted to ...
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Mesolithic Northern England : Environment, Population and Settlement
... in Mesolithic environments in detail is a problem of immense ...all early Mesolithic coastlines, alongside evidence for available resources and settlement patterns, having been ...
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Being Ritual in Mesolithic Britain and Ireland : Identifying Ritual Behaviour Within an Ephemeral Material Record
... the Early Mesolithic pit at Hermitage (containing cremated human bone deposits, a polished stone axe, and fragmented burnt stones, and with no evidence of burning of the pit edges) as not unusual or ...
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Looking for the traces of the last hunter-gatherers : Geophysical survey in the Mesolithic shell middens of the Sado valley (southern Portugal)
... largest Mesolithic sites in the Sado (3500 m 2 ), although the limits were difficult to assess because, as stated above, the archaeological deposit does not exhibit any particular feature on the ...
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A long slow goodbye – Re-examining the Mesolithic – Neolithic transition (5500 – 2500 BCE) in the Dutch delta
... Our analysis shows that the diversity of faunal assem- blages is remarkably constant throughout the Late Mesolithic and Neolithic in Dutch wetland contexts. This suggests a persistence of the extended broad-spec- ...
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Aquatic animal resources in Prehistoric Aegean, Greece
... The aquatic resources of the Hellenic area have been systematically exploited by coastal communities that lived by the sea, the rivers and the lakes, for a very long period of time. This interaction begun at least as ...
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Does the archaeoastronomic record of the Cotswold-Severn region reflect evidence of a transition from lunar to solar alignment?
... terminally ended east-west gallery first, Grimes contended that such designs ‘are now generally accepted as the earliest in the Cotswold-Severn complex.’ 130 Grimes was following Glyn Daniel's lead. Daniel's survey of ...
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A Mesolithic settlement site at Howick, Northumberland: a preliminary report
... the Mesolithic from a few remains of what appear to be skull phase of activity on the ...coastal Mesolithic sites but it was roughouts or cobbles, probably for axeheads clearly associated with ...
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Plant resource availability and management in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Greece
... and Mesolithic periods in Greece is ...the Mesolithic, which is supported by botanical evidence from four ...the Mesolithic; (d) Minimum mesh sizes used for the collection of seed/fruit plant ...
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Meta Analysis of mitochondrial DNA reveals several population bottlenecks during worldwide migrations of cattle
... Neolithic origin for domestic cattle and no indication of domestication of European aurochs.. provides no evidence for independent domestication of cattle in Mesolithic Rosenhof, Norther[r] ...
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Collecting the past : aspects of historiography and lithic artefact analysis for the creation of narratives for the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology of Wales.
... Before scientific techniques such as radiocarbon dating, or ice-core data became available, the understanding of prehistoric chronology was reliant upon the recognition of periods. These developed from the three-age ...
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