Late Stone Age Hunters of the British Isles

ISBN-13: 9780415072021 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 232 str.

Christopher Smith

Opis

A balanced account of the period 12,500-5,500 years agoj written by a middle-aged, middle-class academic with interests in bird watching and astronomy " Dr Smith discusses the environmental frameworks and the key sites in an accessible and attractively presented way. The result moves the late palaeolithic and mesolithic away from just the study of stone tools and towards the interaction of foraging peoples with their landscape. A landscape which as Chris Smith shows experienced continuous and major changes that make the Greenhouse Effect appear insignificant. A useful introduction to early British prehistory.' - Clive Gamble

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Hunters and Gatherers in Action 3. Hunters and Gatherers in the Archaeological Record 4. An Interpretative Framework 5. The Late glacial and Early Postglacial Environment 6. Case Studies 1: Hunters of the Lateglacial Tundra 7. Case Studies 2: Hunters of the Boreal Forests and Deciduous Woodlands 8. Case Studies 3: Coastal Adaptations 9. The Late glacial and Early Postglacial Settlement of the British Isles

O autorze

Christopher Smith