Life and Death in the Mesolithic of Sweden

Life and Death in the Mesolithic of Sweden

by Mats Larsson
Life and Death in the Mesolithic of Sweden

Life and Death in the Mesolithic of Sweden

by Mats Larsson

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Overview

Over the last 20 years a vast number of new and important Swedish Mesolithic sites have been excavated and published in different ways as articles, books and site reports. As yet there has been no study that tries to bring the loose ends together and so the main task of this important new work by one of Sweden’s leading prehistorians is to provide an extensive overview of some of the main sites and results. The time span is long: c. 10 000-4000 BC and the amount and choice of data very large so rather than attempt to describe everything in detail Mats Larsson focuses on a series of fundamental research perspectives concerning Mesolithic lifeways and settlement patterns and chooses key sites to illustrate them. The emphasis is on southern and middle Sweden, though the country’s northern regions are in no way forgotten. This companion piece to the author’s recent successful volume Paths Towards a New World: Neolithic in Sweden, written for a general audience is also a must for all those archaeologists interested in the Mesolithic of Northern Europe and would be students of prehistory

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785703867
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Publication date: 01/31/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 144
File size: 11 MB
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About the Author

Mats Larsson is Professor of Archaeology at Linnaeus University in Kalmar/Växjö in Sweden. He studied in Lund and wrote his dissertation on the Early Neolithic of southernmost Sweden. This is a theme he has developed over the years in books and articles. His other main interest is the late part of the Middle Neolithic in Sweden. Over the years he has cooperated with leading British Archaeologists including Julian Thomas, Mike Parker-Pearson and Richard Bradley.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. The Mesolithic in Sweden: an introduction
Mesolithic on the move

2. Hunters in the Forest
Agerödmosse (bog)
Settlement patterns and hunting/collecting strategies
Life and death
The end of the Mesolithic in Scania
Segebro-an Early Atlantic Settlement at the coast
Ageröd V-An Atlantic bog site
Tågerup- Settlement and Burials
Yngsjö and Årup
The Last Hunters- The Ertebølle Culture
Soldattorpet, Limhamn
Löddesborg
Tågerup
Bredasten
Yngsjö

3. BLEKINGE: NEW DISCOVERIES
Bro 597
Damm 6
Norrje Sunnansund: Tons of fish

4. HUNTERS ALONG THE KALMAR STRAIT AND ON ÖLAND
Tingby, a much discussed house
New excavations at Tingby
Concluding remarks
Öland
5. SEALHUNTERS ON GOTLAND
Taking care of the dead
6. INTO THE FOREST: EARLY HUNTERS IN THE SOUTH SWEDISH INLAND
7. PIONEERS: HUNTERS IN EASTERN MIDDLE SWEDEN
Östergötland. New discoveries
The Mjölby sites
Mörby
Sand covered houses
Högby
Storlyckan: Another site with a dwelling structure
The hut
Spatial distribution
Western Östergötland, Lake Tåkern
Sites around Linköping
Life and death around Motala
Death in the Lake
The Late Mesolithic in Östergötland
Pioneering hunters: some remarks
8. PIONEERS IN THE EARLY ARCHIPELAGOS OF EASTERN MIDDLE SWEDEN
Early sites
Late sites
9. MOVING INLAND
10. THE WESTERN PART OF SWEDEN
The earliest sites
Hensbacka Culture
Inland sites
Sandarna Culture
The dead
The Late Mesolithic
Lihult
Lihult inland sites
Transverse arrowheads

11. MOVING NORTH
Leksand
Along the coast-further north
12. PIONEERS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTHERN SWEDEN
The earliest sites
Later Mesolithic
Epilogue
References
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