Hunter-Gatherer Ireland : Making Connections in an Island World / Graeme Warren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warren, Graeme, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 194 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxbow Books, [2022]

Summary:

Explores the Irish Mesolithic - the period after the end of the last Ice Age when Ireland was home to hunter-gatherer communities, mostly from about 10, 000-6, 000 years ago. At this time, Ireland was an island world, with striking similarities and differences to its European neighbours - not least in terms of the terrestrial ecology created by its island status. To understand the communities of hunter-gatherers who lived there, it is essential that we consider the connections established between people and the other beings and materials with which they shared the world and through which they grew into it. Understanding the Mesolithic means paying attention to the animals, plants, spirits and things with which hunting and gathering groups formed kinship relationships and in collaboration with which they experienced life. The book closes with a reflection on hunting and gathering in Ireland today. The overriding aim of the book is to provide a point of entry into the lives of the Irish Mesolithic, to show the different ways in which people have lived on this island, and to show how we might narrate those lives.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Gathering on the cliffs

Chapter 1 A framework for Mesolithic Ireland

Chapter 2 Introducing Mesolithic people

Chapter 3 An island world?

Chapter 4 A forested land

Chapter 5 Deep time hunter-gatherers

Chapter 6 Making places with mobile architecture

Chapter 7 Changing technologies

Chapter 8 Connecting populations and communities

Chapter 9 Histories of the Mesolithic in Ireland

Chapter 10 Hunting, gathering and fishing without hunter-gatherers

Epilogue

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789256826

1789256828

9781789256840

1789256844

OCLC:

1290019149