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- Created by: Oliver
- Created on: 08-11-16 10:44
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- STAR CARR
- Finds
- 17,000 flint artefacts: including 426 scrapers, 336 gravers, 114 awls, 7 axe or adzeheads, 5saws, 248 microliths
- 191 antler or bone spear
- 9 antler tines 8 elk bone pins 6 elk antler mattocks
- birch resin and resin sticking to a microlith and twoantler points
- 21 red deer antler frontlets
- wooden paddle
- Clark
- area of brushwood laid down on top of the reed swamp at the edge ofthe lake
- deliberately constructed platform on which hunters encamped.
- Clarke had only excavated a peripheral zone.
- Background
- preserved in peat the finds of bone, antler and wood which revolutionised our view of Mesolithic people in Britain
- domestic dog
- earliest carpentry
- earliest house
- 20 red deer antler frontlets
- Radiocarbon dates
- 10th millenium BP
- Environment
- Pollen analysis =birch dominated
- Willow =damper ground.
- mixed deciduous woodland –hazel, oak and elm.
- sedge and reed swamp.
- vegetation + animals changed, – red deer, roe deer and wild pig.
- 2 main phases of activity: 10 700BP – next 80 years saw lakeside vegetation burning. Activity resumed 10 500BP lasted 120 years.
- Faunal
Remains
- 3year
red and 1 year roe deer
- half the animals killed at Star Carr were deer.
- wounds often in shoulder blades
- animals have healing wounds
- 3year
red and 1 year roe deer
- Finds
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