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Find Concentrations and Dwelling Structures. the Interpretaion of Final Palaeolithic Find Scatters Frank Gelhausen, Jan F Find concentrations and dwelling structures. The interpretaion of Final Palaeolithic find scatters Frank Gelhausen, Jan F. Kegler, Stefan Wenzel To cite this version: Frank Gelhausen, Jan F. Kegler, Stefan Wenzel. Find concentrations and dwelling structures. The interpretaion of Final Palaeolithic find scatters. Sinéad McCartan; Rick Schulting; Graeme Warren; Peter Woodman. Mesolithic horizons. Papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe Belfast 2005, pp.450-457, 2009, 978-1-84217-311-4. hal-02281113 HAL Id: hal-02281113 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02281113 Submitted on 8 Sep 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. This pdf of your paper in Mesolithic Horizons belongs to the publishers Oxbow Books and it is their copyright. As author you are licenced to make up to 50 offprints from it, but beyond that you may not publish it on the World Wide Web until three years from publication (June 2012), unless the site is a limited access intranet (password protected). If you have queries about this please contact the editorial department at Oxbow Books ([email protected]). An offprint from Mesolithic Horizons Papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe, Belfast 2005 Edited by Sinéad McCartan, Rick Schulting, Graeme Warren and Peter Woodman © OXBOW BOOKS 2009 ISBN 978-1-84217-311-4 Contents VOLUME I List of Contributors ix Preface (Peter Woodman) xvii Plenaries (i) Mapping the European Mesolithic (S. K. Kozłowski) xx (ii) The Mesolithic in Europe – some retrospective perspectives (Lars Larsson) xxvii (iii) The way forward (T. Douglas Price) xxxiii (iv) Ireland’s place in the European Mesolithic: why it’s ok to be different (Peter C. Woodman) xxxvi (v) The Mesolithic and the 21st century (Marek Zvelebil) xlvii New lands 1 Introduction (Peter C. Woodman) 1 2 Climate change, demography and social relations: an alternative view of the Late Palaeolithic 3 pioneer colonization of southern Scandinavia (Felix Riede) 3 Late Palaeolithic reindeer hunters – from a coastal perspective (Bengt Nordqvist) 11 4 Colonizing seascapes: comparative perspectives on the development of maritime relations in 16 the Pleistocene/Holocene transition in north-west Europe (Hein Bjartmann Bjerck) 5 Entering new shores. Colonization processes in early archipelagos in eastern central Sweden 24 (Roger Wikell and Mattias Pettersson) 6 The flint collection from the Ristola site in Lahti and the cultural contacts of the earliest 31 Postglacial settlement of southern Finland (Hannu Takala) 7 The Sujala site in Utsjoki: Post-Swiderian in northern Lapland? 38 (Jarmo Kankaanpää and Tuija Rankama) 8 Hunter-gatherers of the Istrian peninsula: the value of lithic raw material analysis to study 45 small-scale colonization processes (Paolo Pellegatti) 9 Early farmers on the coast: lithic procurement strategies of colonists in the eastern Adriatic 53 (Niels H. Andreasen) 10 The colonisation of eastern alpine territories: the Val di Non case study and the ‘Regole’ field 60 camps (Trento, Italy) (Giampaolo Dalmeri, Klaus Kompatscher, Maria Hrozny Kompatscher, Anna Cusinato and Michele Bassetti) Mobility 11 Introduction (C. R. Wickham-Jones) 71 12 Moving perceptions: movement, mobility and the material dimension (Thomas Kador) 73 13 Top-down or bottom-up?: Americanist approaches to the study of hunter-gatherer mobility 80 (Douglas B. Bamforth) 14 Are we there yet? Using GIS to investigate paths and landmarks in the Mesolithic of south-west 89 Germany (Harry Starr and Susan Harris) 15 Raw material and settlement strategies at the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary in Trentino 96 (north-eastern Italian Alps): (Fabio Cavulli and Stefano Grimaldi) 16 Evidence of mobility between the coast and the inland region in the Mesolithic of northern 102 Fennoscandia (Mikael A. Manninen) 17 Walking around the Federsee: analyzing mobility and settlement through regional surface survey 109 in south-west Germany (Susan K. Harris, Harry Starr, Lynn E. Fisher and Michael Jochim) 18 One pig does not a winter make. New seasonal evidence at the Early Mesolithic sites of 115 Holmegaard and Mullerup and the Late Mesolithic site of Ertebølle in Denmark (Richard Carter) 19 Deciphering archaeological palimpsests: an example from a Canadian Barrenland caribou 122 hunting camp (Bryan C. Gordon) Contents v People in their environment 20 Introduction (Rick Schulting) 131 21 Coastal perspectives on the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition (Nicky Milner and Eva Laurie) 134 22 Current research on prehistoric human coastal ecology: Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene 140 hunter-gatherer transitions in north-west Sicily (Marcello A. Mannino and Kenneth D. Thomas) 23 The tragedy of the shoreline? Social ecology of Mesolithic coastal subsistence, with reference to the site 146 of Culverwell, Isle of Portland (southern England) (Marcello A. Mannino and Kenneth D. Thomas) 24 Small game exploitation through the Mediterranean Pleistocene-Holocene transition in southern France: 152 a key resource augmenting the dietary range (Alexandre Bournery) 25 An examination of Mesolithic shellfish gathering activities in the lower Asón river basin 161 (Cantabria, España) (F. Igor Gutiérrez Zugasti) 26 Stone Age settlement sites on an environmentally sensitive coastal area along the lower reaches of 167 the River Pärnu (south-western Estonia), as indicators of changing settlement patterns, technologies and economies (Aivar Kriiska and Lembi Lõugas) 27 Automating the extrapolation of sea-level displacement curves: implications for Mesolithic research 176 in western Norway (David N. Simpson) 28 Shells, seals and ceramics: an evaluation of a midden at West Voe, Sumburgh, Shetland, 2004–5 184 (Nigel D. Melton) 29 Mesolithic elk (Alces alces L.) from Zamostje 2 (Russia) (Louis Chaix) 190 30 Animal bone studies and the perception of animals in Mesolithic society (Anna Mansrud) 198 31 Cultural small-scale variations in a hunter-gatherer society: or ‘everybody wants to be a little bit 203 different!’ An ethnoarchaeological study from Siberia (Ole Grøn, Torunn Klokkernes and Michail G. Turov) 32 Stable isotopic reconstruction of Early Mesolithic diet at Pupićina Cave 210 (Clea Paine, Tamsin O’Connell and Preston T. Miracle) 33 Human colonisation routes and the origins of Irish mammals (Ceiridwen J. Edwards, Daniel G. Bradley) 217 34 The ecology of hazel (Corylus avellana) nuts in Mesolithic Ireland (Anne M. G. McComb) 225 People and Places 35 Introduction (Sinéad B. McCartan) 235 36 Settlement patterns, landscape and society in western Norway during the Late Mesolithic 237 (Sigrid Mannsåker Gundersen) 37 Mesolithic inland settlement in southern Norway (Per Persson) 243 38 The settlement patterns of the Maglemose culture on Bornholm, Denmark. Some preliminary results 248 and hypotheses (Claudio Casati and Lasse Sørensen) 39 People and places in the Latvian Mesolithic: a case study from the Zvejnieki archaeological complex 255 (Ilga Zagorska) 40 Dąbrowa Biskupia 71: a specialized camp from the Maglemose culture 261 (Lucyna Domańska and Marcin Wąs) 41 Early Holocene landscape dynamics and forager land use diversity: the example of Hoge Vaart-A27 269 (Almere, The Netherlands) (Hans Peeters) 42 Mesolithic territories and land-use systems in north-western Belgium 277 (Joris Sergant, Philippe Crombé and Yves Perdaen) 43 Mesolithic settlement and land use in the Campine region (Belgium) 282 (Marc De Bie and Marijn Van Gils) 44 Upland colonization: patterns of settling and habitation in northern Istria, Croatia (Darko Komšo) 288 45 People and their land at the southern margins of the central Po Plain in the Early Mesolithic 296 (Federica Fontana, Maria Giovanna Cremona, Erika Ferrari, Federico Guarisco and Davide Mengoli) 46 A view from the edges: the Mesolithic settlement of the interior areas of the Iberian Peninsula 303 reconsidered (Pablo Arias, Enrique Cerrillo-Cuenca, Esteban Álvarez-Fernández, Eloy Gómez-Pellón and Antonio González Cordero) 47 Recent developments in Early Holocene hunter-gatherer subsistence and settlement: a view from south-western Iberia (Maria João Valente and António Faustino Carvalho) 312 48 Mesolithic people in an open Mediterranean wetland 318 (Andrea L. Balbo , Darko Komšo and Preston T. Miracle) 49 Occupation in a submerged Mesolithic landscape (Garry Momber, Julie Satchell and Jan Gillespie) 324 vi Contents Regional identities 50 Introduction (Graeme Warren) 333 51 Flint procurement in the French Alps during the Mesolithic: deciphering economic and cultural 336 territories (Céline Bressy) 52 The power of place and regional identity in the British south-western Mesolithic (Clive Jonathon Bond) 345 53 Worm’s Head and Caldey Island (south Wales, UK) and the question of Mesolithic territories 354 (Rick Schulting) 54 Show me how you make your hunting equipment and I will tell you where you come from: technical 362 traditions, an efficient means of characterizing cultural identities (Eva David) 55 Being-in-the-(Mesolithic) world: place,
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