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The Mesolithic background for the Neolithisation process [PDF]
Documenta Praehistorica, 2009 Most researchers today agree that the Early Neolithic is clearly related to the late Mesolithic and cannot be understood without its Mesolithic predecessors. Immigration is thus hardly an issue in the question of Neolithisation any longer.
Ebbe H. Nielsen
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The Resettlement of the British Landscape: Towards a chronology of Early Mesolithic lithic assemblage types [PDF]
Internet Archaeology, 2016 During the Upper Palaeolithic Britain was visited intermittently, perhaps only on a seasonal basis, by groups often operating at the margins of their range. The Early Mesolithic, by contrast, witnessed the start of the permanent occupation of the British
Chantal Conneller +3 more
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Nature, 1933 ARCHAEOLOGISTS, of whom I am one, are really quite remarkable people. It is notorious that the nomenclature of their study is already in a sad condition, yet, recently, they have gone out of their way to make confusion more confounded. It has now become the practice to describe early neolithic flint implements by the term mesolithic, a term which means,
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Open Archaeology, 2023 The Mesolithic technology in Western Europe depicts the last cultural expressions and adaptations of hunter-gatherers before the adoption of Neolithic agro-pastoral practices.
Ricci Giulia +7 more
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Woodland clearance in the Mesolithic: the social aspects. [PDF]
, 2005 Did Mesolithic people regard the woodland as a wilderness or park? Previous models have portrayed the hunter-gatherers of the Mesolithic as in tune with nature and making use of clearings to attract game.
John G Robb +6 more
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Diet in Mesolithic Europe: New evidence from dental microwear
Internet Archaeology, 2007 Palaeodietary reconstruction is a key to understanding Mesolithic lifeways. Dental microwear analysis is a tool for investigating palaeodiet using microscopic tooth wear patterns.
T. Rowan McLaughlin
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Поволжская археология, 2013 A widespread thesis concerning population continuity in the Lower Kama region during the Late Mesolithic and the Early Neolithic is challenged in the article.
Viskalin Aleksandr V.
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Open Archaeology, 2022 The region Kleinwalsertal (Vorarlberg, Austria) represents one of the numerous little-known archaeological areas of the Austrian Alps. Here, over 90 sites were found since the 1980s, including surficial flint scatters as well as excavated sites, mainly ...
Posch Caroline
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Consumers, not Contributors? The Study of the Mesolithic and the Study of Hunter-Gatherers
Open Archaeology, 2022 This article examines the relationship between the archaeology of the Mesolithic and the broader archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers. Bibliographic reviews of articles presented at past MESO conferences and recent high-ranking Mesolithic ...
Elliott Ben, Warren Graeme
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The identification of the sample dated as Wk-26796: what that tells us about Cabeço da Amoreira, Muge, Portugal [PDF]
, 2022 The transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in Portugal is complex, involving a cultural mosaic and probable overlap of the two ways of life for at least half a millennium.
Roksandic, Mirjana +3 more
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