A Bronze Age Cist Cemetery at Howick, Northumberland

Waddington, Clive; Bailey, Geoff; Boomer, Ian; Milner, Nicky; Clarke, Ann; Clogg, Phil; Cotton, Jacqui

doi:10.1080/00665983.2005.11020621

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“…Mollusc shells found in a.o. Danish and British sites testify shellfish consumption at coastal sites (Andersen, 1995;Russell et al, 1995;Waddington et al, 2003aWaddington et al, , 2003b.…”

Section: The Importance Of Aurochs Hunting For Mesolithic Subsistencementioning

confidence: 98%

“…Many smaller mammals were hunted as well, such as beaver, badger, otter, martens, fox, wild cat and e in coastal sites e seals (for instance Gehl, 1961;Teichert, 1989Teichert, , 1994Andersen, 1995;Jaanitz, 1995;Miller, 1998;Benecke, 1999;Waddington et al, 2003a). European pond turtles, fishes and birds were captured at some sites in large numbers (Bødker Enghoff, 1995;Grigson, 1988;Lehmkuhl, 1989;Oversteegen et al, 2001;Van WijngaardenBakker et al, 2001).…”

Section: The Importance Of Aurochs Hunting For Mesolithic Subsistencementioning

confidence: 98%

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Late Mesolithic hunting of a small female aurochs in the valley of the River Tjonger (the Netherlands) in the light of Mesolithic aurochs hunting in NW Europe

Prummel

Niekus²

2011

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…Mollusc shells found in a.o. Danish and British sites testify shellfish consumption at coastal sites (Andersen, 1995;Russell et al, 1995;Waddington et al, 2003aWaddington et al, , 2003b.…”

Section: The Importance Of Aurochs Hunting For Mesolithic Subsistencementioning

confidence: 98%

Section: The Importance Of Aurochs Hunting For Mesolithic Subsistencementioning

confidence: 98%

Late Mesolithic hunting of a small female aurochs in the valley of the River Tjonger (the Netherlands) in the light of Mesolithic aurochs hunting in NW Europe

Prummel

Niekus²

2011

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…Four statistically consistent radiocarbon measurements are available on hazelnut shell from Kettlebury (T’= 7.3; T’(5%)= 7.8; df= 3; Waddington et al . 2007, table 15.1), and two statistically consistent radiocarbon measurements are available on hazelnut shell from Longmoor I (T’= 1.3; T’(5%)= 3.8; df= 1; Waddington et al . 2007, table 15.1).…”

Section: Radiocarbon Dating and Chronological Modellingmentioning

confidence: 77%

“…2007, table 15.1), and two statistically consistent radiocarbon measurements are available on hazelnut shell from Longmoor I (T’= 1.3; T’(5%)= 3.8; df= 1; Waddington et al . 2007, table 15.1). This suggests that the occupation of both sites was relatively brief.…”

Section: Radiocarbon Dating and Chronological Modellingmentioning

confidence: 77%

Making and Breaking Microliths: A Middle Mesolithic Site at Asfordby, Leicestershire

Cooper

Jarvis

Bayliss³

et al. 2017

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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Archaeological fieldwork preceding housing development revealed a Mesolithic site in a primary context. A central hearth was evident from a cluster of calcined flint and bone, the latter producing a modelled date for the start of occupation at 8220–7840 cal bc and ending at 7960–7530 cal bc (95% probability). The principal activity was the knapping of bladelets, the blanks for microlith production. Impact-damaged microliths indicated the re-tooling of hunting weaponry, while microwear analysis of other tools demonstrated hide working and butchery activity at the site. The lithics can be classified as a Honey Hill assemblage type on the basis of distinctive leaf-shaped microlithic points with inverse basal retouch. Such assemblages have a known concentration in central England and are thought to be temporally intermediate between the conventional British Early and Late Mesolithic periods. The lithic assemblage is compared to other Honey Hill type and related Horsham type assemblages from south-eastern England. Both assemblage types are termed Middle Mesolithic and may be seen as part of wider developments in the late Preboreal and Boreal periods of north-west Europe. Rapid climatic warming at this time saw the northward expansion of deciduous woodland into north-west Europe. Emerging new ecosystems presented changes in resource patterns and the Middle Mesolithic lithic typo-technological developments reflect novel foraging strategies as adaptations to the new opportunities of Boreal forest conditions. While Honey Hill-type assemblages are seen as part of such wider processes their distinctive typological signature attests to autochthonous, regional developments of human groups infilling the landscape. Such cultural insularity may reflect changing social boundaries with reduction in mobility range and physical isolation caused by rising sea level and the creation of the British archipelago.

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“…For example, Rowley-Conwy (1995) articulates a more constrained logistic movement to the proximal North York Moors, while Simmons (1996) envisions the Pennine arm of the system as being exploited residentially, rather than logistically. There are a variety of data, both isotopic (Richards et al 2003) and archaeological (Hetherington 2003; Richards 2004;Waddington et al 2003), to suggest regular use of the coastal zones and marine resources, and this is not in question.…”

Section: Long-distance Logistic Mobility: the Mesolithic Of Northern mentioning

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Long-Distance Logistic Mobility as an Organizing Principle among Northern Hunter-Gatherers: A Great Lakes Middle Holocene Settlement System

Lovis¹,

Donahue²,

Holman³

2005

Am. antiq.

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Concepts of residential and logistic mobility are applied to survey assemblages from multiple decades of research along the interior drainages of central lower Michigan. Drawing on the ethnographic record of boreal hunter-gatherers and archaeological interpretations of long-distance logistic mobility from the Mesolithic of northern England and continental Europe, it is argued that the importance of logistic mobility is underrepresented in summaries of northern hemisphere hunter-gatherers. Reconstruction of Middle Holocene environments suggests that the resource structure of the central Michigan uplands was one that fostered use of logistic mobility, and that interior Middle Archaic assemblages and site structures reveal special function activities systemically tied to residential and other special function sites at lower coastal elevations, as well as currently submerged under Lake Huron. We conclude that rising levels of Lake Huron ca. 4500 B.P. resulted in decreased land area, population packing, and a consequent shift to residential mobility by the Late Archaic. Further, the results of this analysis can serve as a comparative framework for recognizing the role of logistic mobility in the evolution of hunter-gatherer adaptive strategies in other regions.

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A Bronze Age Cist Cemetery at Howick, Northumberland

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

Late Mesolithic hunting of a small female aurochs in the valley of the River Tjonger (the Netherlands) in the light of Mesolithic aurochs hunting in NW Europe

Late Mesolithic hunting of a small female aurochs in the valley of the River Tjonger (the Netherlands) in the light of Mesolithic aurochs hunting in NW Europe

Making and Breaking Microliths: A Middle Mesolithic Site at Asfordby, Leicestershire

Long-Distance Logistic Mobility as an Organizing Principle among Northern Hunter-Gatherers: A Great Lakes Middle Holocene Settlement System

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