Culture, behaviour, and the 8200 cal BP cold event: organisational change and culture environment dynamics in Late Mesolithic Northern Fennoscandia

This dissertation focuses on Late Mesolithic (ca. 8450 6850 cal BP) lithic technological changes in the northernmost parts of Finland, Norway, and Sweden and on the relationship between these changes and the 8.2 ka climate event that was caused by a disruption in the North Atlantic Thermohaline circ...

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Main Author: Manninen, Mikael A. (Author)
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: Helsinki Archeological Society of Finnland 2014
Series:Monographs of the Archaeological Society of Finland 4
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Online Access:Volltext
http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-67594-5-6
Summary:This dissertation focuses on Late Mesolithic (ca. 8450 6850 cal BP) lithic technological changes in the northernmost parts of Finland, Norway, and Sweden and on the relationship between these changes and the 8.2 ka climate event that was caused by a disruption in the North Atlantic Thermohaline circulation. The study uses a framework derived from Darwinian evolutionary theory and acknowledges the effects of both environmental constraints and socially transmitted information, i.e., culture, in the way lithic technology was organised in the studied region. The study discusses whether climatic cooling and its effects on the biotic environment could explain the way lithic technology and settlement patterns were reorganised during the Late Mesolithic ...
Physical Description:VII, 87 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9789526759449

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