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Reindeer hunters at Howburn Farm, South Lanarkshire - A Late Hamburgian settlement in southern Scotland – its lithic artefacts and natural environment (Hardcover)
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Reindeer hunters at Howburn Farm, South Lanarkshire - A Late Hamburgian settlement in southern Scotland – its lithic artefacts and natural environment (Hardcover)
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This volume presents the lithic assemblage from Howburn in South
Lanarkshire, Scotland, which at present is the oldest prehistoric
settlement in Scotland (12,700-12,000 BC), and the only Hamburgian
settlement in Britain. The site also included a scatter from the
Late Upper Palaeolithic Federmesser- Gruppen period (12,000-10,800
BC), as well as lithics from the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early
Bronze Age. The book focuses on the Hamburgian finds, which are
mainly based on the exploitation of flint from Doggerland, the then
dry bed of the North Sea. The Hamburgian tools include tanged
arrowheads, scrapers, piercers, burins, and other implement forms
which show similarities with tools of the same age on the European
continent. The shape of one scatter suggests that the Palaeolithic
settlers lived in tent-like structures. The Palaeolithic finds from
Howburn shed light on several important general trends, such as the
‘acclimatization’ of pioneer settlers, as well as the
development of regional differences following the initial Late
Glacial recolonization of Scotland. Palaeo-environmental work
focused on whether there was a small lake (‘Loch Howburn’) in
front of the terrace on which the camp was situated, and it was
concluded that there was indeed a lake there, but it was neither
contemporary with the Hamburgian, nor the Federmesser-Gruppen
settlement. Most likely, ‘Loch Howburn’ dates to the Loch
Lomond stadial.
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