Stone Age Studies in Post-glacial Europe

Randsborg, Klavs ; editor:

ISBN 10: 1405184213 / ISBN 13: 9781405184212

Published by Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2007

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29x22cm, 219 pp., Series: Acta archaeologica. Supplementa, v. 9 / Centre of World Archaeology (CWA) Publications, 5. Weighs 1100 grams. Contents : Ezero - Kale : from the Copper Age to the Bronze Age in the southern Balkans / Inga Merkyte -- The function of perforated shoe-last axes / Niels V. Skak-Nielsen -- The Ahrensburgian Galta 3 Site in SW Norway : dating, technology and cultural affinity / Ingrid Fuglestvedt -- The northern periphery of the TRB graves and ritual deposits in Norway / Einar Østmo -- The Mesolithic settlement in NE Savo, Finland and the earliest settlement in the eastern Baltic Sea / Timo Jussila, Aivar Kriiska & Tapani Rostedt -- The composition of Mesolithic food evidence from the submerged settlement on the Argus Bank, Denmark / Anders Fischer, . [et al.] -- Historical context of the term complexity in the south Scandinavian Mesolithic / Erik Brinch Petersen & Christopher Meiklejohn -- New information on the Stone Age graves at Dragsholm, Denmark / T. Douglas Price, . [et al.].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stone Age Studies in Post-glacial Europe
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1405184213
• ISBN 13: 9781405184212
• Binding: orig.wrappers
• Condition: Minor rubbing. VG.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Stone Age Archaeology

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Synopsis

An important contribution to the European Mesolithic and Neolithic literature.

• Focusses on Northern Europe including Novel methods and studies, and very important finds.
• Includes major new developments on Ezero-Kale in Bulgaria (a sequel to Acta Archaeologica Supplementa VI, 2005 on the Lîga Copper Age settlement).
• Provides a superb explanation of the collapse of Balkan Copper Age societies and the long transition to the Bronze Age.
• Includes the re-orientation towards the new centres of the Mediterranean and the Near East: indeed, the dawn of civilization.

About the Author

Klavs Randsborg is the Editor of Acta Archaeologica. Founded in 1930, the journal is the leading scientific international archaeological periodical in Scandinavia. It publishes full presentations of important new discoveries, archaeological analyses, and general and interdisciplinary studies with an archaeological basis.