The Mesolithic Settlement of Northern Europe
A Study of the Food-gathering Peoples of Northern Europe during the Early Post-glacial Period

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.

J. G. D. Clark (Author)

9781107419087, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 14 August 2014

318 pages
24.6 x 18.9 x 1.7 cm, 0.57 kg

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'. Numerous illustrative figures are also included, together with lists of objects and archaeological sites. The subject matter of the text formed the basis for a course of lectures delivered in the Faculty of Archaeology and Ethnology at Cambridge University during the Lent Term of 1934. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the Mesolithic period and the development of archaeology.

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.

Subject Areas: Prehistoric archaeology [HDDA]