Reindeer Hunters of the Ice Age in Europe
Reindeer Hunters of the Ice Age in Europe

Author: Laure Fontana

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-09-26

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 3031062590

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This book undertakes a thorough study of Reindeer in the Upper Pleniglacial and Tardiglacial societies in France. It addresses two main topics – the economy of animal resources within the societies and the exploitation of Reindeer organized within the annual cycle, in terms of space and time, between 30,000 and 14,000 cal BP in France. The author proposes an analysis and hypothesis regarding the economy of animal resources and the nomadic cycle of the last Paleolithic hunter-gatherer societies, in order to identify a “Reindeer system.” The author discusses the relationship between Reindeer and human mobility and offers some conclusions regarding the annual cycles of nomadism. The volume scrutinizes the distinct eco systems in three regions and its effects on the movements of both human and animal. This book is of interest to zooarchaeologists and prehistorians.

Mesolithic Forest Hunters in Ukrainian Polessye
Mesolithic Forest Hunters in Ukrainian Polessye

Author: Leonid Zaliznyak

Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 156

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A study of the most northerly communities in the Mesolithic, those largely dependant on the hunting of Reindeer in the tundra and their adaptation to a forest environment. The study examines their economy, the cycles of the year, settlements, social groupings, hunting patterns and migrations.

Hunters in a Changing World
Hunters in a Changing World

Author: International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences. Commission XXXII

Publisher: Verlag Marie Leidorf

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 294

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This volume presents the proceedings of the Workshop of the UISPP Commission XXXII held at Greifswald in 2002 which focused on man's reaction to the dramatic climatic, and subsequent environmental, change that marked the end of the Pleistocene and the beginning of the warmer Holocene. Focusing on northern and central Europe, contributors discuss the types of changes that took place in vegetation, fauna and landscape across this region before looking at specific case studies. These examine, for example, the problems of dating environmental deposits or bone artefacts. Sites discussed include Lundby and Bornholm in Denmark, Norregard, the Polish plain, Kreis Schleswig-Flensburg in Germany, the Havelland, northern Germany and Italy. A final study examines evidence from this transitional period further afield on the Japanese islands. All papers are in English.