Ecology of early settlement in Northern Europe
Subtitle: conditions for subsistence and survival
By: edited by Per Persson, Felix Riede, Birgitte Skar, Heidi M. Breivik and Leif Jonsson
Series: The early settlement of Northern Europe -- volume 1; Early settlement of Northern Europe -- v. 1.
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Sheffield, South Yorkshire; Bristol, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9781781795156; 9781781796023
Subjects: Prehistoric peoples; Human settlements; History; Human ecology; Antiquities; Environmental archaeology
Description: "The first volume presents new archaeological and ecological data and analyses on the relation between human subsistence and survival, and the natural history of North-Western Europe throughout the period 10000-6000 BC. The volume contains contributions from ecological oriented archaeologists and from the natural sciences, throwing new light on the physical and biotic/ecological conditions of relevance to the earliest settlement. Main themes are human subsistence, subsistence technology, ecology and food availability pertaining to the first humans, and demographic patterns among humans linked to the accessibility of different landscapes"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Birgitte Skar and Heidi Mjelva Breivik, Introduction; title: Leif Jonsson, Marine and terrestrial vertebrate fauna in Skagerak; title: Lou Schmitt, Why walk when you can take a boat; title: Erwin Cziesla, Seal-hunting in the final Paleolithic of Northern Europe; title: Adam Boethius, Huseby Klev and the quest for pioneer subsistence strategies; title: Anja Mansrud and Per Persson, Waterworld; title: Axel Mjaerum, Hunting elk at the foot of the mountains; title: Per Persson, The earliest settlement in the middle Scandinavian inland; title: Fredrik Hallgren, A small preboreal settlement site at Kanaljorden; title: Mattias Pettersson and Roger Wikell, Way out east; title: Jan Apel and Jan Stora, The pioneer settlements of Gotland; title: Adam Boethius, The use of aquatic resources; title: Bjorn Nilsson, Arne Sjöström and Per Persson, Seascapes of stability and change; title: Frode Svendsen, Seal and reindeer; title: Jorgen Rosvold and Heidi Mjelva Breivik, An early Holocene bearded seal from the Trondheimfjord; title: Caroline R. Wickham-Jones, Richard Bates, Sue Dawson, Alastair Dawson, Martin Bates,