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Internet Archaeology 22: Mesolithic Archaeology
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Internet Archaeology 22: Mesolithic Archaeology
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Internet Archaeology
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22
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Judith Winters
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Penny Spikins
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2007
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18 Mar 2010
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Diet in Mesolithic Europe; new evidence from dental microwear
Rowan Rowan McLaughlin
Palaeodietary reconstruction is a key to understanding Mesolithic lifeways. Dental microwear analysis is a tool for investigating palaeodiet using microscopic tooth wear patterns. In this study, dental microwear analysis was performed on both Mesolithic and Neolithic human individuals from Brittany, southern Britain and the northern Irish Sea region. The analysis evidences significant differences between Mesolithic and Neolithic diet among the population samples studied, suggesting that different foodstuffs were consumed by the two groups, or that food preparation methods were different. Microwear at Cnoc Coig in Oronsay is dominated by large features. Overall variability in microwear is higher among Mesolithic populations, a finding that provides tentative evidence that Mesolithic diet was more varied than Neolithic diet.
Where are we going? Movement and mobility in Mesolithic research
Thomas Kador
Reviews the most commonly employed models of mobility, including some of their greatest problems and shortcomings. Offers an alternative approach, based on an integrated study of lithic artefacts within a landscape perspective. Tests and illustrates this approach with three case studies from Barrow Valley, Waterford Harbour and the Glens of Antrim.
Cockle Conversations: An investigation of the cockle collection practices at two Danish kitchen midden sites
Eva Laurie
The changes that occurred in the Danish Mesolithic/Neolithic transition are examined via the seasonality and collecting patterns found in the common cockles (Cerastoderma edule (L)) from two Danish kitchen midden sites, Norsminde and Krabbesholm. Three main data sets were used to produce a picture of cockle variability through time. The seasonality results were then compared to oyster seasonality research from the two sites (Milner 2002; Milner and Laurie in press).
In sight of Doggerland; from speculative survey to landscape exploration
Vincent L Gaffney
Simon Fitch
Ken Thomson
The North Sea has long been known by archaeologists as an area of Mesolithic occupation, and has even been argued as the heartland of the Mesolithic in North Western Europe. Yet this area remains effectively terra incognita to archaeologists, and the nature of its occupation, tantalisingly elusive. The submergence of this landscape has therefore effectively hindered archaeological research into this vitally important region. Yet this region contains one of the most detailed and comprehensive records of the Late Quaternary and Holocene, and its preserved sedimentary successions represent a mine of information that remains untapped by archaeologists. However the lack of direct data pertaining to this region results in all previous maps of the prehistoric landscape being at best hypothetical.This paper will present results which illustrate that through the utilisation of spatially extensive oil industry data, the recovery information pertaining to the actual Mesolithic landscape of the North Sea is now possible. This information reveals the diversity of this landscape and shows that much greater consideration of submerged Mesolithic landscapes is now required of archaeologists. Whilst the study of such landscapes is in its infancy, the availability of such information offers the possibility of transforming how we interpret traditional terrestrial data and its relationship to the larger European Mesolithic.
Media for movement and making the world; exploring materials and identity in the Mesolithic...
Hannah Cobb
This paper provides an account of the author's current doctoral research into the Mesolithic period in the northern Irish Sea basin and western Scotland. It explores the extent to which modern understandings of the world and modern geo-political boundaries have been responsible for shaping studies of the period in the area and questions how such interpretations may be re-evaluated. In doing so this paper outlines a series of alternative approaches to understanding hunter gatherer identity, exploring how identity intersects with sensual material engagements and understandings of place. It outlines a way to explore such elements in practice, and presents some initial interpretations of the material that have arisen from the study. This in turn suggests that such an approach may be potentially significant in providing a more detailed, socially situated understanding of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and the changes that such populations underwent during the transition to farming in the northern Irish Sea basin.
The 80s revival continues...; Review of Mesolithic Miscellany (website)
Graeme Warren
Overview of the history of the newsletter, from its original print format to its recent online relaunch (http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/Mesolithic/index.htm). Notes the challenges of a publication attempting to be relevant to the entirety of Europe. Argues that the newsletter does not make the best use possible of its online format, and suggests that shorter articles and more reviews would be better suited to the newsletter format. (PP-B)
Foreword
Penny Spikins
There is rather a special flavour to research into the Mesolithic period. Immersing ourselves in the study of dynamic, mobile communities facing ever changing environments, with interpretations resting on sparse, rather unimpressive evidence brings a certain sense of community to Mesolithic research. The 'Gathering our Thoughts' conference, in York in October 2006, arose from both this sense of community, and from within this a desire amongst postgraduate researchers to 'stand apart' from existing, sometimes traditional, approaches and say something distinctive about the period.
Editorial
Rachel Parks
Editorial for Internet Archaeology issue 22 on the first meeting of the Mesolithic Postgraduate Research Forum. The aim was to provide an informal setting where postgraduates from over the U.K. and Ireland could meet and discuss their research. Over the course of the two days ten papers were given, six of which are now published within this themed issue of Internet Archaeology.
Cultural Landscapes and Neolithisation Processes: Outline of a model for the Scheldt basin (Belgium)
Erick Robinson
Recent research has indicated the continuation of a hunting-fishing-gathering way of life in the lower Scheldt basin (Belgium) for over a millennium after the first arrival of agriculture in the middle Scheldt. Current evidence suggests multiple hiatuses in cultural change from the late 6th-late 5th millennium BC. This article provides the outline of a model that seeks to explain these hiatuses from the perspective of indigenous hunter-fisher-gatherer cultural landscapes. The outline investigates the significance of palaeoecological and social contexts in relation to contact and cultural transmission processes during the transition to agriculture. Recent ethnoarchaeological research from hunter-fisher-gatherers in temperate and boreal environments is referenced as a structural analogy for illuminating the important relationship between territoriality and social mediation within hunter-gatherer groups at the Mesolithic-Neolithic interface.
