Ecology of early settlement in Northern Europe : conditions for subsistence and survival / edited by Per Persson, Felix Riede, Birgitte Skar, Heidi M. Breivik and Leif Jonsson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Persson, Per, 1951- editor.

Riede, Felix, editor.

Skar, Birgitte, editor.

Series:

Early settlement of Northern Europe ; volume 1.

The early settlement of Northern Europe ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental archaeology.

Human ecology.

History.

Human settlements.

Prehistoric peoples.

Scandinavia--Antiquities.

Scandinavia.

Antiquities.

Europe, Northern--Antiquities.

Europe, Northern.

Northern Europe.

Prehistoric peoples--Scandinavia.

Prehistoric peoples--Europe, Northern.

Human settlements--Scandinavia--History.

Human settlements--Europe, Northern--History.

Human ecology--Scandinavia--History.

Human ecology--Europe, Northern--History.

Environmental archaeology--Scandinavia.

Environmental archaeology--Europe, Northern.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 466 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, South Yorkshire ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2018.

Summary:

"The first volume presents new archaeological and ecological data and analyses on the relation between human subsistence and survival, and the natural history of North-Western Europe throughout the period 10000-6000 BC. The volume contains contributions from ecological oriented archaeologists and from the natural sciences, throwing new light on the physical and biotic/ecological conditions of relevance to the earliest settlement. Main themes are human subsistence, subsistence technology, ecology and food availability pertaining to the first humans, and demographic patterns among humans linked to the accessibility of different landscapes"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Environment and adaptation of forager pioneers in the north-western regions of Europe / Birgitte Skar and Heidi Mjelva Breivik

2. Marine and terrestrial vertebrate fauna in Skagerak and southern Norway in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene / Leif Jonsson

3. Why walk when you can take a boat? moving beyond the north central European plain / Lou Schmitt

4. Seal-hunting in the final Paleolithic of Northern Europe / Erwin Cziesla

5. Huseby Klev and the quest for pioneer subsistence strategies: diversification of a maritime lifestyle / Adam Boethius

6. Waterworld: environment, animal exploitation, and fishhook technology in the north-easter Skaferrak area during the early and middle Mesolithic (9500-6300 cal BC) / Anja Mansrud and Per Persson

7. Hunting elk at the foot of the mountains: remains from 8,000 years of foraging at the edge of the Hardangervidda Plateau in Southern Norway / Axel Mjaerum

8. The earliest settlement in the middle Scandinavian inland: a discussion about Joel Boaz's pioneers in the Mesolithic / Per Persson

9. A small preboreal settlement site at Kanaljorden, Motala, Sweden / Fredrik Hallgren

10. Way out east: evidence of early maritime technologies from the east coast of Sweden / Mattias Pettersson and Roger Wikell

11. The pioneer settlements of Gotland: a behavioural ecology approach / Jan Apel and Jan Storï¿1/2a

12. The use of aquatic resources by early Mesolithic foragers in southern Scandinavia / Adam Boethius

13. Seascapes of stability and change: the archaeological and ecological potential of early Mesolithic seascapes, with examples from Havï¿1/2ang in the south-eastern Baltic, Sweden / Bjorn Nilsson, Arne Sjï¿1/2ostrï¿1/2om and Per Persson

14. Seal and reindeer: immediate and continuous utilization of coast and mountain in the early Mesolithic of north-western Norway / Frode Svendsen

15. An early Holocene bearded seal from the Trondheim fjord: environmental and archaeological implications / Jorgen Rosvold and Heidi Mjelva Breivik

16. The changing landscape of prehistoric Orkney / Caroline R. Wickham-Jones, Richard Bates, Sue Dawson, Alastair Dawson, Martin Bates

17. Economy and environment during the early Mesolithic of western Scotland: repeated visits to a fishing locality on a small island in the Inner Hebrides / Karen Wicks and Steven Mithen, with contributions from Anne Pirie, Martin Bell and Claire Ingrem.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Ecology of early settlement in Northern Europe.

ISBN:

9781781795156

1781795150

9781781796023

1781796025

OCLC:

981948516

Publisher Number:

99977337424