A critical assessment of the data recently put forward in favour of a 'Mesolithic agriculture'for
Central and Northern Europe is presented. The archaeobotanical record is quite clear …

The global warming at the end of the last glacial period led to a sea level rise, which induced
substantial long-term landscape changes in the southwestern Baltic Sea. During the …

THE BORDER BETWEEN THE Mesolithic and the Neolithic in Central Europe is traditionally
defined on the basis of subsistence strategy. It is the development from hunter-gatherer …

During the northern European Mesolithic, new types of objects were ornamented with
different geometric motifs. Many examples, however, are stray finds and their dating is poorly …

The research into the Terminal Mesolithic cultures of the southwestern Baltic in northern
Germany goes back to the 19th century, and a close resemblance of the local find material …

This chapter looks at how a relatively rising, constant, or falling sea level threatens to destroy
a prehistoric deposit, and under what immediately local conditions it is likely to survive in a …

The maritime zone of the Baltic basin, in all the phases of its settlement history, was of
special importance to the people living there. Only there did they have access to marine …

In the first half of the 20th century, V. Gordon Childe developed a model of cultural diffusion
with a gradient from the Near East to the northern parts of Europe (1928, 1947). Childe was …

Af ClAudio CASAti og lASSe SørenSen i det følgende vil vi forsøge at opsummere de
forskningsresultater, som er opnået i forbindelse med de seneste års intensive mesolitiske …

A sample of 300 artefacts was selected for the study of microwear traces including both
retouched and unretouched artefacts (blades and flakes) as well as non-or slightly burned …