Essays about: "Mesolithic"
Showing result 16 - 19 of 19 essays containing the word Mesolithic.
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16. Perished Material - Vanished People Understanding variation in Upper Palaeolithic/Mesolithic Textile Technologies
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens historiaAbstract : The pilot project which is reported here was triggered by the author’s curiosity of the origin and development of basic textile technologies in early Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherer groups. The research question for the study is: Can comparisons of textile artefacts over a large range of areas and time spans tell us something about the early manufacture, use and development of textiles technologies? The methodology chosen for the study is to make a large scale survey of textile artefacts, primarily from excavations in Northern and Central Europe/Eurasia during three very different climate periods: the last interglacial period of Pleistocene, the latest glacial maximum and the first part of Holocene, the present interglacial period– the timespan for the study begins ca. READ MORE
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17. Returning to Vuollerim : Geoarchaeological study of Soil Samples from a Stone Age Settlement
University essay from Umeå universitet/Miljöarkeologiska laboratorietAbstract : The Stone Age settlement site outside the village of Vuollerim in northern Sweden was first discovered in the 1980s and has been an important part of the research regarding Mesolithic and Neolithic in Norrland. One of the houses on the site was named Norpan 2 and nearly fifteen hundred soil samples were collected and stored during the excavations between 1983 and 1987. READ MORE
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18. An Optimal Foraging Perspective on Early Holocene Human Prey Choice on Gotland : Affluence or Starvation?
University essay from Institutionen för kultur, energi och miljöAbstract : The Optimal Foraging Theory, rooted in the processual archaeology, uses a measuring methodology where the foraging strategy that gives the highest payoff measured as the highest ratio of energy gain per time unit is analysed (Mac Arthur & Pianca 1966, Emlen 1966). The theory is a branch of evolutionary ecology why much attention is paid to the interdependence of humans and preys and environmental conditions caused by climatologically and geographical changes or by overexploitation or other changes caused by humans. READ MORE
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19. Interaction between hunter - gatherers and the environment in the Lake Lubāns basin, eastern Latvia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Arkeologi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens historiaAbstract : The largest Stone Age micro region in Latvia, has been discovered and extensively investigated during the 1960s -1980s in the Lake Lubāns basin. This master thesis discuss the interaction between hunter-gatherers and the environment in the developing stages of the Lake Lubāns. READ MORE
