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Record Nr.

UNINA9910853987203321

Autore

Ballin Torben Bjarke

Titolo

Reindeer hunters at Howburn Farm, South Lanarkshire : a late Hamburgian settlement in southern Scotland - its lithic artefacts and natural environment / / Torben Bjarke Ballin [and nine others.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

ISBN

1-78491-902-0

Disciplina

936.1/4/01

Soggetti

Excavations (Archaeology) - Scotland - Lanarkshire

Lanarkshire (Scotland) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents the lithic assemblage from Howburn in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, which at present is the oldest prehistoric settlement in Scotland (12,700-12,000 BC), and the only Hamburgian settlement in Britain. The site also included a scatter from the Late Upper Palaeolithic Federmesser-Gruppen period (12,000-10,800 BC), as well as lithics from the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. The book focuses on the Hamburgian finds, which are mainly based on the exploitation of flint from Doggerland, the then dry bed of the North Sea.