British Mesolithic 8000-5000BC
Mainly Star Carr case study.
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- British Mesolithic 8000-5000BC
- Star Carr
- Finds include-barbs, flint microliths and a wooden canoe paddle
- Indication of a hunting ground?
- Range of animal bones -variety of prey. Also includes dog/wolf bones-domestication, used for hunting?
- Jadeite hand axe-votive offering?
- Similar to hand axes found at other sites where they haven't been used.
- Would take a long time to make, hence the votive offering idea-giving up something precious in offering.
- Similar to hand axes found at other sites where they haven't been used.
- Finds preserved due to waterlogged peat where they were found.
- 195 'barbed points'
- Between 8cm and 38cm.
- Make up 95% of number found in British Mesolithic.
- Have been deliberately broken-more votive offerings?
- Between 8cm and 38cm.
- Indication of a hunting ground?
- Red deer stag horn 'helmets'-21 of.
- Finds include-barbs, flint microliths and a wooden canoe paddle
- Indication of a hunting ground?
- Range of animal bones -variety of prey. Also includes dog/wolf bones-domestication, used for hunting?
- Jadeite hand axe-votive offering?
- Similar to hand axes found at other sites where they haven't been used.
- Would take a long time to make, hence the votive offering idea-giving up something precious in offering.
- Similar to hand axes found at other sites where they haven't been used.
- Finds preserved due to waterlogged peat where they were found.
- 195 'barbed points'
- Between 8cm and 38cm.
- Make up 95% of number found in British Mesolithic.
- Have been deliberately broken-more votive offerings?
- Between 8cm and 38cm.
- Indication of a hunting ground?
- Stalking disguise?
- Seems unlikely as would be very uncomfortable and heavy, not really practical for hunting.
- Shamanistic ritual?
- Seems more plausible. Maybe they were dunked into what was lake Flixton/Pickering at the time?
- Lake would have seemed like a boundary to them as can't see beneath it, can't swim. Liminal boundary. (Flag Fen linkage?)
- Seem important anyway-used by chief shaman to lead a ceremony?
- Seems more plausible. Maybe they were dunked into what was lake Flixton/Pickering at the time?
- Lake would have seemed like a boundary to them as can't see beneath it, can't swim. Liminal boundary. (Flag Fen linkage?)
- Seems more plausible. Maybe they were dunked into what was lake Flixton/Pickering at the time?
- Two holes drilled in skull-to allow for ties?
- Seems more plausible. Maybe they were dunked into what was lake Flixton/Pickering at the time?
- Finds include-barbs, flint microliths and a wooden canoe paddle
- Dated using varves in lake which trapped carbon-C14. 8750-8600BC.
- Platform made of birchwood extends out into lake Flixton-perhaps used in ritualistic ceremony involving red deer antlers?
- Shamanistic ritual?
- Seem important anyway-used by chief shaman to lead a ceremony?
- Two holes drilled in skull-to allow for ties?
- Seem important anyway-used by chief shaman to lead a ceremony?
- Shamanistic ritual?
- Located in North Yorkshire
- 8700BC
- Evidence of structures.
- Post holes, sunken area with concentration of flints, burning.
- Posts roughly 20 cm diameter, 18 in total, indications that some of them had been replaced.
- Can work out measurements from pipe holes and infill.
- Charcoal residue.
- From reed plants
- Density indicates repeat burning.
- For some reason there was repeated, deliberate burning of reedswamp in front of site.
- 'Management'?
- Provide stratified sample of 20 C14 dates-site revisited multiple times with multiple burnings.
- For some reason there was repeated, deliberate burning of reedswamp in front of site.
- Density indicates repeat burning.
- From reed plants
- Posts roughly 20 cm diameter, 18 in total, indications that some of them had been replaced.
- Estimated on size and finds that around 20-25 people could have lived here for around 3 months a year, for 25 years. (Original estimation by Clark)
- Now estimated used for 250-300 years.
- Post holes, sunken area with concentration of flints, burning.
- Diet made up mainly of red deer-parts of at least 80 carcasses.
- No remains of fish-odd for a site located by a lake?
- Most came from stags killed between November and April
- Antlers still firmly fixed but grown, not shedding yet.
- Ritualistic hunting?
- Debated with the advances of technology-indicates summer months.
- Antlers still firmly fixed but grown, not shedding yet.
- Could have been imported for antlers-not necessarily for meat.
- Finds include-barbs, flint microliths and a wooden canoe paddle
- Morton, Fife
- Large middens-monuments?
- No cemeteries-or at least not found, doesn't mean there aren't any.
- Prevalence of excarnation.
- Only 2,500-5,000 people in the whole of Britain at time.
- Star Carr
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