A session held at the TAG conference in Cardiff in 1999 sought to steer Mesolithic debates away from traditional lithic approaches and instead considered social aspects of Mesolithic life. The seventeen papers given here, many of which are from that conference, discuss a wide range of subjects: the `people behind the lithics', interaction with the landscape, with animals, food and subsistence, body ornament and burial practices, settlement, violence and death, revisiting Star Carr. Contributors are: Marek Zvelebil, Peter Jordan, Lynne Bevan, Biddy Simpson, Jenny Moore, Malcolm Lillie, Richard Chatterton, C Richards, R J Schulting, Christophe Cupillard, George Nash, I J N Thorpe, Rebekah Judeh .
Author(s): Lynne Bevan (editor), Jenny Moore (editor)
Series: BAR British Archaeological Reports International Series 1157
Publisher: BAR Publishing
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 202
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
1. PEOPLE BEHIND THE LITHICS. SOCIAL LIFE AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF MESOLITHIC COMMUNITIES IN TEMPERATE EUROPE
2. PEOPLING THE MESOLITHIC: INSIGHTS FROM ETHNOGRAPHIES OF LANDSCAPE AND MATERIAL CULTURE
3. STAG NIGHTS AND HORNY MEN: ANTLER SYMBOLISM AND INTERACTION WITH THE ANIMAL WORLD DURING THE MESOLITHIC
4. THE HUMBLE BEAD: BODY ADORNMENT AND BURIAL PRACTICES IN THE BRITISH PALAEOLITHIC AND MESOLITHIC
5. BEYOND HAZELNUTS AND INTO THE FOREST
6. THE FRUIT AND NUT CASE: HUNTER GATHERER SUBSISTENCE AND EGALITARIANISM IN THE RIPARIAN ZONE
7. STAR CARR REANALYSED
8. STAR CARR RECONTEXTUALISED
9. CACHE AND CARRY: DEFINING MOMENTS IN THE IRISH LATER MESOLITHIC
10. ANALYTICAL SCALE, POPULATIONS AND THE MESOLITHIC-NEOLITHIC TRANSITION IN THE FAR NORTHWEST OF EUROPE
11. CAUGHT IN THE ACT—WHERE IS THIS TRANSITION?
12. SOCIAL INTERACTION AND SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN HUNTER GATHERER SOCIETIES—APPLICATIONS OF THE ‘AMITY-ENMITY’ MODEL
13. CHARACTERISING SUBSISTENCE IN MESOLITHIC BRITAIN USING STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS
14. Les derniers chasseurs cueilleurs de l'est de la France: l'exemple de la Franche-Comté entre 10,000 et 6000 BP The last hunter-gatherers in Eastern France: the Franche-Comté region between 10,000–6000 BP
15. SETTLEMENT, POPULATION DYNAMICS AND TERRITORIALITY DURING THE LATE SOUTH SCANDINAVIAN MESOLITHIC
16. DEATH AND VIOLENCE — THE LATER MESOLITHIC OF SOUTHERN SCANDINAVIA
17. TIMECAMP 2000: EXPERIENCING THE MESOLITHIC IN THE 21ST CENTURY
