Mesolithic Europe

Mesolithic Europe

Hardback (05 Aug 2008)

Save $9.74

  • RRP $123.37
  • $113.63
Add to basket

Includes delivery to the United States

10+ copies available online - Usually dispatched within 7 days

Publisher's Synopsis

This book focuses on the archaeology of the hunter-gatherer societies that inhabited Europe in the millennia between the last Ice Age and the spread of agriculture, between ten thousand and five thousand years ago. Traditionally viewed as a period of cultural stagnation, new data now demonstrate that this was a period of radical change and innovation. This was the period that witnessed the colonisation of extensive new territory at high latitudes and high altitudes following postglacial climatic change, the development of seafaring, and the synthesis of the technological, economic, and social capabilities that underpinned the later development of agricultural and urban societies. Providing a pan-European overview, Mesolithic Europe includes regional syntheses written by experts in each region as well as a diversity of theoretical perspectives.

Book information

ISBN: 9780521855037
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 936
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 467
Weight: 1106g
Height: 186mm
Width: 263mm
Spine width: 37mm