Description
Book SynopsisSir John Grahame Douglas Clark (190795) was a British archaeologist and prehistorian who worked extensively on the Mesolithic period. In this book, which was first published in 1936, Clark presents a study of 'the cultural development, during the earlier half of the post-glacial time, of the food-gathering peoples of the western end of the plain of Northern Europe'.
Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. The natural history of the area of settlement; 2. The tanged-point cultures; 3. The axe cultures of the lowland forest area; 4. The art of the Maglemose culture; 5. The microlithic cultures of the sand areas and the highlands; 6. General summary and retrospect; Appendix I. Fauna lists; Appendix II. Find-list of objects of the Lyngby culture; Appendix III. List of Maglemose sites and finding-places, arranged alphabetically under countries; Appendix IV. Key to the distribution map (Fig. 47) of certain forms of bone points; Appendix V. Summary of pollen-analyses correlating the Maglemose culture with the development of forest history; Appendix VI. List of decorated objects of the Maglemose culture; Appendix VII. List of Tardenoisian sites; List of works to which reference is made in the text; Index.
