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Ireland's First Settlers tells the story of the archaeology and
history of the first continuous phase of Ireland’s human
settlement. It combines centuries of search and speculation about
human antiquity in Ireland with a review of what is known today
about the Irish Mesolithic. This is, in part, provided in the
context of the author's 50 years of personal experience searching
to make sense of what initially appeared to be little more than a
collection of beach rolled and battered flint tools. The story is
embedded in how the island of Ireland, its position, distinct
landscape and ecology impacted on when and how Ireland was
colonised. It also explores how these first settlers evolved their
technologies and lifeways to suit the narrow range of abundant
resources that were available. The volume concludes with
discussions on how the landscape should be searched for the often
ephemeral traces of these early settlers and how sites should be
excavated. It asks what we really know about the thoughts and life
of the people themselves and what happened to them as farming began
to be introduced.
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Mesolithic Horizons (Hardcover)
Sinead McCartan, Rick Schulting, Graeme Warren, Peter Woodman
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R4,137
Discovery Miles 41 370
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Mesolithic Horizons marks the publication of the proceedings of the
seventh international conference on 'The Mesolithic in Europe'
(Belfast 2005). The numbers attending these five-yearly conferences
continue to grow - testimony to the growing interest in a period
that less than fifty years ago was seen by many as either a
'hiatus' between two more interesting periods, or as a poorly
understood phase of little consequence. This is an enormous
compendium of research published in two volumes with over 140
papers drawn from the whole of Europe, ranging from the European
Arctic to many parts of the Mediterranean, and from the British
Isles to Russia. These papers cover recent research on virtually
all aspects of the European Mesolithic. They are grouped into
twelve thematic sections that cover topics as diverse as regional
studies which explore settlement, economic identity and mobility,
as well as the critical analysis of individual settlement sites,
and the significance of ritual. The crucial issue of the process of
colonisation that took place at the end of the Ice Age and issues
of transitions in the Mesolithic are extensively covered. For the
first time the publication of the conference contains an index and
consolidated bibliography which will make these volumes invaluable
research tools.
In 2002-2003, the construction of a new road to bypass the village
of Toomebridge, Co Antrim, through which the main Belfast to Derry
Road (A6) passed, was commenced by Roads Service; an Agency within
the Department of Regional Development. As part of the overall
planning permission for the Toomebridge Bypass, the Northern
Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) raised a requirement for
archaeological mitigation. Northern Archaeological Consultancy Ltd
was appointed to undertake the archaeological excavation of this
site. In the course of topsoil stripping a small drumlin on part of
the road scheme 2,100 flint artefacts were uncovered. While the
majority (approximately 70%) of these dated from the Late
Mesolithic, the Earlier Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age
periods were also represented. Archaeology was uncovered on the
western side of the drumlin. It formed 14 discrete areas (Features
1-14). The features were for the most part structures and ranged in
date from the Mid-Mesolithic (Features 1-4), through the Late
Mesolithic (Features 5-8), the Bronze Age (Features 9-11), and the
late Bronze Age or Iron Age (Feature 13) and the 19th to 20th
centuries (Feature 14).
The term 'Mesolithic' was born in the nineteenth century from the
need to label a 'hiatus' period and was not generally accepted as a
useful term by many scholars until around fifty years later. It has
been championed by some, but still concerns others because of the
difficulty of defining what it represents. This volume highlights
the enthusiasm for Mesolithic studies in the 21st century and the
feeling that there is a need to explore the many facets of
Mesolithic lifeways. Approaches are now moving away from the
traditional Mesolithic canon that seems to have been based on a
particular set of biological and/or ecological perspectives and are
now looking for new directions and new theoretical arenas which can
only help stimulate Mesolithic debate. The papers in this volume
take a range of approaches to a period that has largely been devoid
of explicit theoretical discussion. They deconstruct and explore a
broad variety of subjects, including mobility, complexity,
seasonality, death & burial, gender & sexuality, social
relations, music, human agency, ethnoarchaeology and emotion.
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