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Chronology and Evolution within the Mesolithic of North-West Europe
Since its development in 1949, radiocarbon dating has increasingly been used in prehistoric research in order to get a better grip on the chronology of sites, cultures and environmental changes. Refinement of the dating, sampling and calibration methods has continuously created new and challenging perspectives for absolute dating. In these proceedings the focus lies on the contribution of carbon-14 dates in current Mesolithic research in North-West Europe. Altogether 40 papers dealing with radiocarbon dates from 15 different countries are presented. Major themes are the typo-technological evolution of lithic and bone industries, changes in settlement patterns, burial practices, demography and subsistence, human impact on the Mesolithic environment and the neolithisation process. Some papers also deal with more methodological aspects of carbon-14 dating (e.g. calculation of various reservoir effects, the use of cumulative calibrated probability distributions), and related techniques (e.g. stable isotope analysis for palaeodiet reconstruction).
Plant Processing from a Prehistoric and Ethnographic Perspective
This bilingual French and English collection of papers by a panel of international scholars, springing from a round table held in Ghent in 2006, offers archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on the technical aspects of plant processing to produce string, cordage, baskets and textiles. It focuses on processing and production techniques and the chaîne opératoire. In other words, the contributions study the entire sequence of processing, from raw material selection to manufacture, use and discard. Prehistoric plant data, microwear analysis and other archaeological evidence from Palaeolithic to Neolithic Europe is examined alongside ethnographic studies of contemporary practice in New Guinea and French Guiana.
Journal of Northwest Anthropology
JONA Volume 50 Number 1 - Spring 2016 Tales from the River Bank: An In Situ Stone Bowl Found along the Shores of the Salish Sea on the Southern Northwest Coast of British Columbia - Rudy Reimer, Pierre Freile, Kenneth Fath, and John Clague Localized Rituals and Individual Spirit Powers: Discerning Regional Autonomy through Religious Practices in the Coast Salish Past - Bill Angelbeck Assessing the Nutritional Value of Freshwater Mussels on the Western Snake River - Jeremy W. Johnson and Mark G. Plew Snoqualmie Falls: The First Traditional Cultural Property in Washington State Listed in the National Register of Historic Places - Jay Miller with Kenneth Tollefson The Archaeology of Obsidian Occurrence in Stone Tool Manufacture and Use along Two Reaches of the Northern Mid-Columbia River, Washington - Sonja C. Kassa and Patrick T. McCutcheon The Right Tool for the Job: Screen Size and Sample Size in Site Detection - Bradley Bowden Alphonse Louis Pinart among the Natives of Alaska - Richard L. Bland
The Mesolithic in Northwestern Belgium
This monograph discusses the preliminary results of large-scale excavations, still underway at the time of writing, organized at three Mesolithic open-air settlements located on sandy soils in Northwestern Belgium: Oostwinkel, Verrebroek and Kruishoutem. The archaeological investigation to this point had mainly focused on the morpho-typological analysis of lithic artifacts, absolute chronology, site-taphonomy and preliminary spatial analysis, the latter consisting in the visual inspection of distribution maps of various kinds of artifacts and ecofacts. It also includes environmental data. The preliminary information gathered here conveys the great potential of the study area for deepening our understanding of the Mesolithic in the Belgian lowlands. The results obtained prove that even in areas seriously affected by natural (erosion, pedoturbation, etc.) and human activities (extraction, soil cultivation, construction, etc.), the excavation of unstratified sites can still offer many interesting new data.
