Mesolithic Europe / edited by Geoff Bailey, Penny Spikins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bailey, G. N., 1948-

Spikins, Penny.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mesolithic period--Europe.

Mesolithic period.

Agriculture, Prehistoric.

Hunting and gathering societies.

Europe.

Prehistoric peoples--Europe.

Prehistoric peoples.

Hunting and gathering societies--Europe.

Agriculture, Prehistoric--Europe.

Europe--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

xviii, 467 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Summary:

This book focuses on the archaeology of the hunter-gatherer societies that inhabited Europe in the millennia between the Last Ice Age and the spread of agriculture, between ten thousand and five thousand years ago. Traditionally viewed as a period of cultural stagnation, new data now demonstrates that this was a period of radical change and innovation. This was the period that witnessed the colonisation of extensive new territory at high latitudes and high altitudes following postglacial climatic change, the development of seafaring, and the synthesis of the technological, economic, and social capabilities that underpinned the later development of agricultural and urban societies. Providing a pan-European overview, Mesolithic Europe includes up-to-date regional syntheses written by experts in each region as well as a diversity of theoretical perspectives.

Contents:

Mesolithic Europe : glimpses of another world / Penny Spikins

Innovating hunter-gatherers : the Mesolithic in the Baltic / Marek Zvelebil

Norwegian Mesolithic trends : a review / Hein Bjartmann Bjerck

Southern Scandinavia / Hans Peter Blankholm

Mesolithic Britain / Chris Tolan-Smith

New developments in the study of the Mesolithic of the Low Countries / Leo Verhart

The Mesolithic in France / Nicolas Valdeyron

The Mesolithic of the upper Danube and upper Rhine / Michael A. Jochim

The Mesolithic of the middle Danube and upper Elbe rivers / Jiří A. Svoboda

The Mesolithic of the Iron Gates / Clive Bonsall

The Mesolithic of European Russia, Belarus, and the Ukraine / Pavel Doluckhanov

The Mesolithic of Atlantic Iberia / Lawrence Guy Straus

The coastal Mesolithic of the European Mediterranean / Mark Pluciennik

Mesolithic Europe : overview and new problems / Geoff Bailey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-452) and index.

ISBN:

9780521855037

0521855039

OCLC:

85162222

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