Lateglacial and Postglacial Pioneers in Northern Europe

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The Lateglacial and Postglacial pioneer colonisation of northern Europe is a recurrent and ever-popular topic in archaeology. This volume presents a modern review of the topic and provides a wealth of new information on sites, approaches, dates and models. The chapters range geographically from Poland and Germany in the south and west to Finland and western Russia in the north and east, thus framing virtually the entire North European Plain and its northern extension. The volume will serve as a major resource for the study of the human pioneer colonization of the North. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents 1. The Lateglacial and postglacial pioneer colonisation of northern Europe – an introduction 2. Right time, right place – dating the Havelte phase in Slotseng, Denmark 3. On dating the Late Palaeolithic – a comment 4. Success and failure during the Late glacial pioneer human re-colonisation of southern Scandinavia 5. The recolonisation of the Polish Lowland – new ideas and discoveries 6. Magdalenian blade technology from the northeastern European perspective 7. It is not all about quartz – raw material use as a mean to understand colonization processes during early post glacial time in Eastern Central Sweden 8. Motala – a North European Focal Point? 9. Where sky and sea are one. Close encounters with early seafarers and seal-hunters off the Swedish Baltic coast 10. Desolate landscapes or shifting landscapes? Late glacial/early post-glacial settlement of northernmost Norway in the light of new data from Eastern Finnmark 11. Fast or Slow Pioneers? A View from Northern Lapland 12. Radiocarbon dates and postglacial colonisation dynamics in eastern Fennoscandia 13. Postglacial pioneer settlement in the Lake Sarvinki area, eastern Finland 14. Recent Archaeological Research in the Northern Parts of the Lake Ladoga Region in Karelia, Russia