{"product_id":"life-and-death-in-the-mesolithic-of-sweden-9781785703850","title":"Life and Death in the Mesolithic of Sweden","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the last 20 years a vast number of new and important Swedish Mesolithic sites have been excavated and published in different ways as articles, books and site reports. As yet there has been no study that tries to bring the loose ends together and so the main task of this important new work by one of Sweden’s leading prehistorians is to provide an extensive overview of some of the main sites and results. The timespan is long: c. 10 000-4000 BC and the amount and choice of data very large so rather than attempt to describe everything in detail Mats Larsson focuses on a series of fundamental research perspectives concerning Mesolithic lifeways and settlement patterns and chooses key sites to illustrate them. The emphasis is on southern and middle Sweden, though the country’s northern regions are in no way forgotten. This companion piece to the author’s recent successful volume Paths Towards a New World: Neolithic in Sweden, written for a general audience is also a must for all those archaeologists interested in the Mesolithic of Northern Europe and would be students of prehistory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDistilling the scattered field notes and site reports of the entire Swedish Mesolithic (9700-4000 BC) into a slim volume is an impressive task never previously accomplished. Yet with his simple and salient writing style, Larsson – one of the country’s premier prehistorians – manages just that, employing a chronological and thematic approach to make sense of the diverse stone tools, bone-filled pits, and rogue post-holes peppered through Sweden's dense forests and Baltic shoals. * Current World Archaeology *\u003cbr\u003eOverall, this is a very interesting book which provides a very thorough overview of Mesolithic sites in Sweden, and especially highlighting a lot of the important new discoveries made within the last couple of decades… a really important source for students of the Mesolithic * Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Introduction  1. The Mesolithic in Sweden: an introduction   Mesolithic on the move     2. Hunters in the Forest   Agerödmosse (bog)      Settlement patterns and hunting\/collecting strategies  Life and death  The end of the Mesolithic in Scania      Segebro-an Early Atlantic Settlement at the coast  Ageröd V-An Atlantic bog site   Tågerup- Settlement and Burials            Yngsjö and Årup      The Last Hunters- The Ertebølle Culture        Soldattorpet, Limhamn          Löddesborg            Tågerup    Bredasten    Yngsjö     3. BLEKINGE: NEW DISCOVERIES   Bro 597   Damm 6   Norrje Sunnansund: Tons of fish     4. HUNTERS ALONG THE KALMAR STRAIT AND ON ÖLAND      Tingby, a much discussed house      New excavations at Tingby   Concluding remarks           Öland  5. SEALHUNTERS ON GOTLAND   Taking care of the dead  6. INTO THE FOREST: EARLY HUNTERS IN THE SOUTH SWEDISH INLAND  7. PIONEERS: HUNTERS IN EASTERN MIDDLE SWEDEN   Östergötland. New discoveries    The Mjölby sites          \u003cem\u003eMörby\u003c\/em\u003e      Sand covered houses         \u003cem\u003eHögby\u003c\/em\u003e  \u003cem\u003e  \u003c\/em\u003eStorlyckan: Another site with a dwelling structure     The hut     Spatial distribution    Western Östergötland, Lake Tåkern    Sites around Linköping    Life and death around Motala    Death in the Lake    The Late Mesolithic in Östergötland    Pioneering hunters: some remarks  8. PIONEERS IN THE EARLY ARCHIPELAGOS OF EASTERN MIDDLE SWEDEN    Early sites    Late sites  9. MOVING INLAND  10. THE WESTERN PART OF SWEDEN    The earliest sites    Hensbacka Culture    Inland sites    Sandarna Culture    The dead    The Late Mesolithic     Lihult     \u003cem\u003eLihult inland sites\u003c\/em\u003e  \u003cem\u003e   \u003c\/em\u003eTransverse arrowheads     11. MOVING NORTH    Leksand    Along the coast-further north  12. PIONEERS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTHERN SWEDEN    The earliest sites    Later Mesolithic  Epilogue  References","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49535577325911,"sku":"9781785703850","price":38.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785703850.jpg?v=1731898722","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/life-and-death-in-the-mesolithic-of-sweden-9781785703850","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}