Finding the coastal Mesolithic in southwest Britain: AMS dates and stable isotope results on human remains from Caldey Island, south Wales.(Accelerator Mass Spectrometry)

From: Antiquity | Date: December 1, 2002| Author: Richards, Michael P.; Schulting, Rick J. | Copyright information

Introduction

It has long been accepted that we will always be hampered in our reconstruction of early and mid-Holocene subsistence and settlement patterns across southern Britain due to the loss of the coastline by inundation. This is unfortunate on a number of grounds, not least of which is that both ethnographic and archaeological evidence strongly suggests that the greatest potential for fisher-hunter-gatherer socioeconomic complexity is typically found among coastal ...

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