Research Catalog

Title

Prehistoric coastal communities : the Mesolithic in Western Britain / by Martin Bell ; with contributions by J.R.L. Allen ... [et al.] ; illustrations by J.R.L. Allen ... [et al.].

Author

Bell, Martin, 1953-

Publication

York : Council for British Archaeology, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Council for British Archaeology

Description

xlvii, 381 p. : ill., maps; 30 cm. +

Series Statement

CBA research report ; no. 149

Uniform Title

Research report (Council for British Archaeology) no. 149.

Alternative Title

Mesolithic in Western Britain

Subject

• Prehistoric peoples > Great Britain
• Prehistoric peoples > Wales
• Mesolithic period > Great Britain
• Mesolithic period > Wales
• Coastal archaeology > Great Britain
• Coastal archaeology > Wales
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Great Britain
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Wales
• Great Britain > Antiquities
• Wales > Antiquities

Genre/Form

CD-ROMs.

Note

• "With a CD edited by B. Taylor and P. Griffiths."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 344-372) and index.

System Details (note)

• System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: web browser ; CD-ROM drive.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of CD contents -- Summaries (English, French, German, and Welsh) -- The Mesolithic and Neolithic in the coastal zone of western Britain ; The Mesolithic site at Goldcliff East : introduction to the site, the sequence, and methodology ; Mesolithic activity at about the time of the lower submerged forest ; Banded sediments with footprint-tracks ; Island edge occupation : Site A ; Island edge occupations : Site J ; The upper peat and submerged forest / by Martin Bell -- Dating the submerged forests : dendrochronology and radiocarbon 'wiggle-match' dating by Nigel Nayling and Sturt Manning, with contributions by B. Kromer [and others] -- Goldcliff lithic artefacts by R.N.E. Barton with contributions by J.R.L. Allen, A. van Gijn, and M. Bell -- Mesolithic worked wood / by Richard Brunning -- Bone and antler tools / by Martin Bell with contributions by Rachel Scales -- Footprint-tracks of people and animals / by Rachel Scales -- Mammal and fish bones / by Rachel Scales and Claire Ingrem (with a note on molluscs by Martin Bell) -- Plant communities and human activity in the lower submerged forest and on Mesolithic occupation sites / by Petra Dark -- Charcoals from the Mesolithic sites A, B, D, and J / Rowena Gale -- Plant communities of the upper submerged forest / by Scott Timpany -- Insect assemblages from the lower and upper peats / by Emma Tetlow -- Sediments and soils / by J.R.L. Allen and Virgil Yendell -- Mesolithic communities at Goldcliff : conclusions / by Martin Bell -- Mesolithic to Neolithic human activity and impact at the Severn Estuary wetland edge : studies at Llandevenny, Oldbury Flats, Hills Flats, and Woolaston / by Alex Brown -- Shell middens and their environment at Prestatyn, north Wales -- Mesolithic coastal communities in western Britain : conclusions / by Martin Bell -- Bibliography / compiled by Jennifer Foster.

ISBN

• 9781902771649
• 1902771648

LCCN

^^2008353812

OCLC

• 190860620
• SCSB-10228724

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library