TY - JOUR
T1 - What lies beneath⋯ Late Glacial human occupation of the submerged North Sea landscape
AU - Amkreutz, Luc
AU - Verpoorte, Alexander
AU - Waters-Rist, Andrea
AU - Niekus, Marcel
AU - van Heekeren, Vivian
AU - van der Merwe, Alie
AU - van der Plicht, Hans
AU - Glimmerveen, Jan
AU - Stapert, Dick
AU - Johansen, Lykke
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Archaeological evidence from the submerged North Sea landscape has established the rich diversity of Pleistocene and Early Holocene ecosystems and their importance to hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies. Comparatively little of this evidence, however, dates to the Late Glacial, the period when Northern Europe was repopulated by colonising foragers. A human parietal bone and a decorated bovid metatarsus recently recovered from the floor of the North Sea have been dated to this crucial transitional period. They are set against the background of significant climatic and environmental changes and a major technological and sociocultural transformation. These discoveries also reaffirm the importance of continental shelves as archaeological archives.
AB - Archaeological evidence from the submerged North Sea landscape has established the rich diversity of Pleistocene and Early Holocene ecosystems and their importance to hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies. Comparatively little of this evidence, however, dates to the Late Glacial, the period when Northern Europe was repopulated by colonising foragers. A human parietal bone and a decorated bovid metatarsus recently recovered from the floor of the North Sea have been dated to this crucial transitional period. They are set against the background of significant climatic and environmental changes and a major technological and sociocultural transformation. These discoveries also reaffirm the importance of continental shelves as archaeological archives.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2017.195
DO - https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2017.195
M3 - Article
SN - 0003-598X
VL - 92
SP - 22
EP - 37
JO - Antiquity
JF - Antiquity
IS - 361
ER -