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Mesolithic ArchaeologySome issues

• Discovery and Excavation

• Interpretation

• Identity

• Ethnographic parallels?

• Towards a theory of the Mesolithic?

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Definition

The Mesolithic began with the Holocene warm period around 11,660 BP and ended with the introduction of farming, the date of which varied in each geographical region.

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So, how do you locate a Mesolithic site?

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Analogy?

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Starr Carr, Yorkshire

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FIELD WALKING

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