Life And Death In The Mesolithic Of Sweden
by Mats Larsson /
2017 / English / PDF
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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 timespan 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
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 timespan 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
