The Mesolithic in Britain: Landscape and Society in Times of Change (Routledge Archaeology of Northern Europe) - Softcover

Conneller, Chantal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138790435 ISBN 13: 9781138790438

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

The Mesolithic in Britain proposes a new division of the Mesolithic period into four parts, each with its distinct character.

The Mesolithic has previously been seen as timeless, where little changed over thousands of years. This new synthesis draws on advances in scientific dating to understand the Mesolithic inhabitation of Britain as a historical process. The period was, in fact, a time of profound change: houses, monuments, middens, long-term use of sites and regions, manipulation of the environment and the symbolic deposition of human and animal remains all emerged as significant practices in Britain for the first time. The book describes the lives of the first pioneers in the Early Mesolithic; the emergence of new modes of inhabitation in the Middle Mesolithic; the regionally diverse settlement of the Late Mesolithic; and the radical changes of the final millennium of the period. The first synthesis of Mesolithic Britain since 1932, it takes both a chronological and a regional approach.

This book will serve as an essential text for anyone studying the period: undergraduate and graduate students, specialists in the field and community archaeology groups.

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About the Author

Chantal Conneller is a Senior Lecturer in early prehistory at Newcastle University. She is author of An Archaeology of Materials (2012) and Star Carr: A Persistent Place in a Changing World (2018).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138790435
• ISBN 13: 9781138790438
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 488