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Mesolithic Northern England : Environment, Population and Settlement This is a repository copy of Mesolithic Northern England : Environment, Population and Settlement. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/134018/ Version: Submitted Version Book: Spikins, Penny orcid.org/0000-0002-9174-5168 (2000) Mesolithic Northern England : Environment, Population and Settlement. British Archaeological Reports British Series . Archaeopress , Oxford . Reuse Items deposited in White Rose Research Online are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved unless indicated otherwise. They may be downloaded and/or printed for private study, or other acts as permitted by national copyright laws. The publisher or other rights holders may allow further reproduction and re-use of the full text version. This is indicated by the licence information on the White Rose Research Online record for the item. 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