Current debates on the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Britain and Ireland

Documenta Praehistorica

Julian Thomas¹ 

[1] School of Art History and Archaeology, University of Manchester, UK$$

关键词: Mesolithic;    Neolithic;    Britain;    Ireland;    population movement;    diet;    Achnacreebeag;    identity;    timber buildings;   

DOI  :  10.4312/dp.31.8

学科分类：地球科学(综合)

来源: Univerza v Ljubljani * Filozofska Fakulteta / University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Philosophy

【 摘 要 】

In this contribution I address a series of recent publications which present revisionist accounts of the beginning of the Neolithic in the British Isles. New evidence suggests that we need to reconsider issues of population movement, diet, mobility and residence patterns. However, I conclude that a return to a model of colonisation by an agricultural population from the continent is premature, and seek to stress the distinct patterns of change that characterised Britain and Ireland respectively.

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