Mesolithic Europe

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Bailey and Spikins focus on the archaeology of the hunter-gatherer societies that inhabited Europe between 10, 000 and 5, 000 years ago. Traditionally viewed as a period of cultural stagnation, new data now demonstrates that this was a period of radical change and innovation. Chapters include the latest results and approaches in the classical areas of Western Europe as well as extensive new information now available from Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. These up-to-date regional synthesis written by experts with a diversity of theoretical perspectives will interest archaeologists, historians and anthropologists.

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 10, 000 and 5, 000 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 colonization 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 up-to-date regional syntheses written by experts in each region as well as a diversity of theoretical perspectives.