Mesolithic Settlement of Northern Europe - A Study of Food Gathering Peoples of Northern Europe During Early

Informationen zum Autor fm.author_biographical_note1 Klappentext This book, first published in 1936, studies the cultural development of the food-gathering peoples of the western end of the plain of Northern Europe. Zusammenfassung Sir John Grahame Douglas Clark (1907–95) was a British archaeologist and prehistorian who worked extensively on the Mesolithic period. In this book, which was first published in 1936, Clark presents a study of 'the cultural development, during the earlier half of the post-glacial time, of the food-gathering peoples of the western end of the plain of Northern Europe'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. The natural history of the area of settlement; 2. The tanged-point cultures; 3. The axe cultures of the lowland forest area; 4. The art of the Maglemose culture; 5. The microlithic cultures of the sand areas and the highlands; 6. General summary and retrospect; Appendix I. Fauna lists; Appendix II. Find-list of objects of the Lyngby culture; Appendix III. List of Maglemose sites and finding-places, arranged alphabetically under countries; Appendix IV. Key to the distribution map (Fig. 47) of certain forms of bone points; Appendix V. Summary of pollen-analyses correlating the Maglemose culture with the development of forest history; Appendix VI. List of decorated objects of the Maglemose culture; Appendix VII. List of Tardenoisian sites; List of works to which reference is made in the text; Index.

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• Authors: J. G. D. Clark, Clark J. G. D.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.08.2014
• EAN: 9781107419087
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41908-7
• No. of pages: 318
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology