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Author Lillie, Malcolm, author

Title Hunters, fishers and foragers in Wales : towards a social narrative of Mesolithic lifeways / Malcolm Lillie
Published Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 345 pages)
Contents Setting the scene: the palaeolithic and the late-glacial of Britain, adaptation and subsistence in a changing environment -- The view from the hills: sea-level rise, post-glacial climate change, landscape change and changing environments -- Tools of the trade: post-glacial toolkits, their use and their significance -- Coming home to a real fire: landscape utilisation and settlement patterning -- Food for thought: subsistence strategies and economic activity -- The living and the dead: ritual aspects of Mesolithic life -- The end is in sight: the adoption of new resources and the shift from hunting and gathering towards the integration and exploitation of domesticated animals and plants in subsistence strategies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Mesolithic period -- Wales
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Antiquities
Mesolithic period
Mesolitisk tid.
Jägare/samlare.
Fornlämningar.
SUBJECT Wales -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89002971
Subject Wales
Storbritannien -- Wales.
Form Electronic book
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