Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Fitch, Simon.
2. Smith, D. N. (David N.)

Description

1. xxi, 202 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color); 25 cm

Summary

1. This excellent book, which deserves a wide readership, reports on the work of the North Sea Palaeolandscapes Project, which has been researching the fascinating lost landscape of Doggerland which until after the end of the last Ice Age connected Britain to the continent in the North Sea area. It aims to make the findings available to a general readership, and show just how impressive they have been, with nearly 23,000km2 mapped. The techniques used to reconstruct the landscape are explained, and conclusions and speculation about the climate and vegetation of the area in the Mesolithic offered. It also tells the story of the rediscovery of Doggerland, and the Mesolithic landscape more generally, from the pioneering work of Clement Reid in the nineteenth century, to the research of Grahame Clark and Bryony Coles in the twentieth. It's also worth pointing out just how well produced and illustrated the book is, and one can only hope that it can spark public interest in a comparatively little known phase of our prehistory.

Series statement

1. CBA research report ; no. 160

Uniform title

1. Research report (Council for British Archaeology) ; no. 160.

Subject

1. Coastal archaeology > Europe, Northern
2. Mesolithic period > North Sea
3. Archaeological surveying > North Sea
4. Prehistoric peoples > Europe, Northern
5. Mesolithic period > Europe, Northern
6. 15.32 prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology
7. Antiquities
8. Archaeological surveying
9. Coastal archaeology
10. Mesolithic period
11. Prehistoric peoples
12. Unterwasserarchäologie
13. Mesolithikum
14. Mesolithicum
15. Archeologische vindplaatsen
16. Mesolitisk tid > Nordsjön
17. Arkeologi > Nordsjön
18. Geoarkeologi > Nordsjön
19. Klimatologi > Nordsjön
20. North Sea > Antiquities
21. Europe, Northern > Antiquities
22. Atlantic Ocean > North Sea
23. Northern Europe
24. Doggerbank
25. Doggersbank

Contents

1. Noah's woods and island Britain -- Through a glass, darkly : the idea of the British mesolithic -- Mapping Doggerland -- Known unknowns! Reconstructing the climate and vegetation of the North Sea basin -- Past worlds--lost worlds--future worlds.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-198) and index.