Thinking mesolithic / by Stefan Karol Kozłowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kozłowski, Stefan Karol, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mesolithic period--Europe.

Mesolithic period.

Human ecology--Europe--History.

Human ecology.

Prehistoric peoples--Europe.

Prehistoric peoples.

Industries, Prehistoric--Europe.

Industries, Prehistoric.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Europe.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Europe--Antiquities.

Europe.

Europe--History, Local.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 545 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxbow Books, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Studies of the European Mesolithic have gone through a renaissance since the seminal Warsaw conference on the subject in 1973, and Stefan Kozlowski has been at its heart. This book presents a comprehensive, re-edited selection of his most important writings on the subject, along with new papers written especially for this edition. Kozlowski begins with thematic chapters exploring Mesolithic archaeology's key themes - the technologies people employed, the human ecology of Mesolithic communities and chronology. In a series of core chapters arranged according to European macro-regions, he then examines the diversity of Europe's Mesolithic cultures, remembering Kapuscinski's adage that 'for most people the world ends on the threshold of their own home, the outskirts of their own village, the borders of the valley they live in at the farthest.' He argues that the Mesolithic 'stage' resulted from the adaptation of Palaeolithic tundra communities to the new ecological conditions of the early Post Glacial, to a forested environment where the primitive agriculture that emerged in the Mediterranean region was not possible. With his eye simultaneously on both the continental and local levels, Kozlowski offers a compelling portrait of a period in which Europe was characterised by a wide range of different human ecologies, and seethed with human activity from the Pyrenees to the Urals.

Contents:

Definitions. The first steps ; Warsaw '73 : introduction to the history of Europe in the early Holocene ; Forli '96 : early postglacial adaptations in Central Europe ; Lille '00 e pluribus unum? Regards sur l'Europe mésolithique ; Stockholm '00 : the Mesolithic: what do we know and what we believe?

What and how?. Stone ; bone and antler ; Wood ; Hunting gear ; how?

Where?. The screen ; The resources

There!. Pyrénées, Alpes et Carpates: Barriéres culturelles pour les derniers chasseurs-prédateurs ; Mesolithic settlement pattern ; Une cartographie des éléments typologiques mésolithiques en Europe ; Atlas of the European Mesolithic ; The "stories of some Microliths

When?. Chronology ; Conservative character of Mesolithic cultures ; West, center, and south ; The main evolutive trends in the European Mesolithic ; Castelnovization ; Cermization of the Mesolithic

Stylistic/"cultural" differentiation of the Mesolithic

South. Italy ; The Trentino Sequence ; Central Italy (Tuscany) ; The South of Italy ; Eastern and Northeastern outlying areas ; Iberia

The Southeast. Eco-cultural/stylistic zonation of the Mesolithic in Central and Southeastern Europe ; Slovenian Mesoltithic ; Lepensky Vir lithics ; Vlasac

The West and the Center. Les courants interculturels dans le Mésolithique de L'Europe Occidentale ; The West (Beuronian) and Rhenanian Beuronian ; The "Sauveterrian Commonwealth" or the West between the South and the Center ; After sauveterrization ; The Center : Maglemosian

The East. The Northeastern flint tools ; Caspian-Caucasian industries ; "Model A" Castelnovian cultures in the East

The North. The Scandinavian tanged points ; The TPC in its younger phase ; Desna culture ; Sandarna ; Microbladelets (Limhamn in Sweden, Nøstvet in Norway)

Castelnovian/Pre-Neolithic. The Pre-Neolithic (Castelnovian) base of the Early Neolithic stone industries in Europe ; The castelnovian complex ; Para-Castelnovian(?) cultures of the Pontic Steppe ; Pontic elements in the Late Mesolithic of the Vistula and Boh (Southern Bug)-Dniester basins ; The Mesolithic; Between East and West ; Gaban ; Latronico ; Leduc 2 ; Odmut

Bone, antler, and amber

The final score.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [534]-545).

ISBN:

9781782972983

1782972986

9781782973003

1782973001