Peopling the Mesolithic in a Northern Environment

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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 . 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