Coastal landscapes of the Mesolithic : human engagement with the coast from the Atlantic to the Baltic Sea / edited by Almut Schülke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schülke, Almut, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape archaeology.

Coastal archaeology.

Europe, Northern--Antiquities.

Europe, Northern.

Northern Europe.

Antiquities.

Mesolithic period--Europe, Northern.

Mesolithic period.

Coastal archaeology--Europe, Northern.

Landscape archaeology--Europe, Northern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Almut Schülke is Associate Professor for Nordic Archaeology (Mesolithic and Neolithic periods) at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway. Her research interests include the study of social space and mobility in coastal and other environments, ritual and depositional practices and burial archaeology.

Contents:

Coastal landscapes of the Mesolithic : diversities, challenges and perspectives on human-coast-relations between the Atlantic and the Baltic Sea / Almut Schülke

The role of coastal exploitation in the Maglemose culture of southern Scandinavia : marginal or dominant? / Peter Moe Astrup

Mesolithic coastal landscapes : demography, settlement patterns and subsistence economy in southeastern Norway / Steinar Solheim

" ... they made no effort to explore the interior of the country ... " : coastal landscapes, hunter-gatherers and the islands of Ireland / Grame Warren & Kieran Westley

Transformations of coast and culture : a view from the Latvian shore of the Baltic / Valdis Berzinš

Diachronic trends among Early Mesolithic site types? A study from the coast of central Norway / Heidi Mjelva Breivik

The Mesolithic coastal exploitation of western Scotland : the impacts of climate change and use of favoured locations / Steven Mithen, Karen Wicks & Inger Marie Berg-Hansen

Specialists facing climate change. The 8200 cal BP event and its impact on the coastal settlement in the inner Oslofjord, southeast Norway / Guro Fossum

Mesolithic networks of Atlantic France : the two faces of Brittany (7th and 6th millennia cal BC) / Grégor Marchand

Mesolithic fishing landscapes in western Norway / Knut Andreas Bergsvik & Kenneth Ritchie

Resource management in Late Mesolithic eastern Norway? Fishing in the coastal, interior and mountain areas and its socio-economic implications / Axel Mjærum/Anja Mansrud

Seals on the ice : integrating archaeology, zooarchaeology and isotopic studies to discuss some aspects on landscape use and subsistence choices in Stone Age coastal societies of the Baltic Sea / Aikaterini Glykou

The use of the Mesolithic coastal hinterland : an example from the palaeoecological investigations from Lake Skogstjern, Telemark, southeastern Norway / Magdalena Wieckowska-Lüth & Wiebke Kierleis

Nodal points in a Mesolithic mobile coastal world : monumental quarries in south Norway / Astrid Johanne Nyland

Newly frequented or revisited? Motivations of mobility and the use and re-use of sites in the changing coastal areas of Mesolithic southeastern Norway / Almut Schülke

Ritual depositions in the coastal zone : a case from Syltholm, Denmark / SÃ ̧ren Anker SÃ ̧rensen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 07, 2020).

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Print version: Coastal landscapes of the Mesolithic

ISBN:

9780203730942

0203730941

9781351398800

1351398806

9781351398817

1351398814

9781351398824

1351398822

Publisher Number:

99984096124

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