Mesolithic Europe
Mesolithic Europe
$73.00
USDThis 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 demonstrate 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 regional syntheses written by experts in each region as well as a diversity of theoretical perspectives.
- Diversity of theoretical perspectives including the latest ideas
- Up-to-date regional syntheses written by experts in each region
- New data from previously inaccessible or little known areas of Europe
Reviews & endorsements
"Mesolithic Europe is an impressive, updated, and concise synthesis of the early Post-Glacial European hunter-gatherer record that brings together the research of 14 authors from Europe and the United States. Against all odds, the editors have dealt with the major constraint of presenting a pan-European synthesis in a single, handy volume, with a reasonable amount of detail, adequately documented and illustrated. This book strikes a balance between the local and the global and facts and interpretation, allowing the reader to use it both as reference to the regional records presented and also as a valuable source of information about emerging patterns and ideas regarding the period." --Journal of Field Archaeology
"Mesolithic Europe is encyclopedic in scopel it is not a textbook, nor is it a book one reads for general interest, but rather a primary source for academic research." -Laurie Milne, Canadian Journal of Archaeology
Product details
June 2010Paperback
9780521147972
500 pages
251 × 175 × 28 mm
1kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Mesolithic Europe - glimpses of another world Penny Spikins
- 2. Innovating hunter-gatherers: the Mesolithic in the Baltic Marek Zvelebil
- 3. Norwegian Mesolithic trends: a review Hein Bjerck
- 4. Southern Scandinavia Hans Peter Blankholm
- 5. Mesolithic Britain Chris Tolan-Smith
- 6. New developments in the study of the Mesolithic of the low countries Leo Verhardt
- 7. The Mesolithic in France Nicolas Valdeyron
- 8. The Mesolithic of the Upper Danube and the Upper Rhine Michael Jochim
- 9. The Mesolithic of the Middle Danube and Upper Elbe rivers Jiri Svoboda
- 10. The Mesolithic of the iron gates Clive Bonsall
- 11. The Mesolithic of European Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine Pavel Doluckanov
- 12. The Mesolithic of Atlantic Iberia Lawrence Guy Straus
- 13. The coastal Mesolithic of the European Mediterranean Mark Pluciennik
- 14. Mesolithic Europe, overview and new problems Geoff Bailey.
