1. Environment and Adaptation of Forager Pioneers in the North-western Regions of Europe
Ecology of Early Settlement in Northern Europe - Conditions for Subsistence and Survival (Volume 1) - Per Persson
Birgitte Skar [+ ]
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Birgitte Skar is associate professor in archaeology at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU University Museum. She is educated at The Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, Moesgaard, University of Århus. Her research focusses on Early Stone Age with emphasis on chaine operatoire in stone technology and human-environment relations.
Heidi Mjelva Breivik [+ ]
Department of Historical Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Heidi Mjelva Breivik holds a PhD in archaeology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Her research focusses Early Stone Age with emphasis on marine foragers, human–environment relations, technology and settlement patterns.
Description
The first volume presents new archaeological and ecological data and analyses on the relation between human subsistence and survival, and the natural history of North-Western Europe throughout the period 10000 - 6000 BC. The volume contains contributions from ecological oriented archaeologists and from the natural sciences, throwing new light on the physical and biotic/ecological conditions of relevance to the earliest settlement. Main themes are human subsistence, subsistence technology, ecology and food availability pertaining to the first humans, and demographic patterns among humans linked to the accessibility of different landscapes.