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Mesolithic Europe

Name: Mesolithic Europe
Author: Geoff Bailey
ISBN: 9780521147972

by Geoff Bailey, Penny Spikins

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Overview

This book focuses on the archaeology of the hunter-gatherer societies that inhabited Europe in the millennia between the Last Ice Age and the spread of agriculture, between ten thousand and five thousand years ago. Traditionally viewed as a period of cultural stagnation, new data now demonstrates that this was a period of radical change and innovation. This was the period that witnessed the colonisation of extensive new territory at high latitudes and high altitudes following postglacial climatic change, the development of seafaring, and the synthesis of the technological, economic, and social capabilities that underpinned the later development of agricultural and urban societies. Providing a pan-European overview, Mesolithic Europe includes up-to-date regional syntheses written by experts in each region as well as a diversity of theoretical perspectives.

Synopsis

A pan-European overview of the archaeology of hunter-gatherer societies, written by experts in each region.

About the Author, Geoff Bailey

Geoff Bailey is Anniversary Professor of Archaeology in the department of archaeology at the University of York. He has published widely on a variety of topics in prehistory, including the major monograph on Klithi: Paleolithic Settlement and Quaternary Landscapes in Northwest Greece. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists.

Penny Spikins is Lecturer in Prehistory in the department of archaeology, University of York. She has published on a broad range of topics in prehistoric archaeology and directed the West Yorkshire Mesolithic Project and the Searching for Submerged Sites Project in Northern England, and has carried out research in Argentina.

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"Mesolithic Europe is an impressive, updated, and concise synthesis of the early Post-Glacial European hunter-gatherer record that brings together the research of 14 authors from Europe and the United States. Against all odds, the editors have dealt with the major constraint of presenting a pan-European synthesis in a single, handy volume, with a reasonable amount of detail, adequately documented and illustrated. This book strikes a balance between the local and the global and facts and interpretation, allowing the reader to use it both as reference to the regional records presented and also as a valuable source of information about emerging patterns and ideas regarding the period." --Journal of Field Archaeology

"Mesolithic Europe is encyclopedic in scopel it is not a textbook, nor is it a book one reads for general interest, but rather a primary source for academic research." -Laurie Milne, Canadian Journal of Archaeology