Mesolithic Europe (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521855037)

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.

Author: Geoff Bailey
ISBN-10: 0521855039
ISBN-13: 9780521855037
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/18/2008
Pages: 498
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.19lbs
Size: 10.24h x 7.30w x 1.15d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2009