232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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For 7,000 years after the last ice age, the people of the British Isles subsisted by hunting wild game and gathering fruits of the forest and foreshore. Belonging to the late Upper Palaelithic and Mesolithic periods, these hunter-gatherers have hitherto been viewed mainly in terms of stone tool typologies. late Stone Age Hunters of the British Isles departs from this conventional approach,... Read more
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
Biography
Christopher Smith
