Coastal Landscapes of the Mesolithic

Almut Schülke is Associate Professor for Nordic Archaeology (Mesolithic and Neolithic periods) at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway. Her research interests include the study of social space and mobility in coastal and other environments, ritual and depositional practices and burial archaeology.

1. Coastal landscapes of the Mesolithic: Diversities, challenges and perspectives on human–coast relations between the Atlantic and the Baltic Sea



Almut Schülke



Part I: The significance of coastal areas



2. The role of coastal exploitation in the Maglemose culture of southern Scandinavia – marginal or dominant?

Peter Moe Astrup



3. Mesolithic coastal landscapes: Demography, settlement patterns and subsistence economy in southeastern Norway

Steinar Solheim



4. 'They made no effort to explore the interior of the country': Coastal landscapes, hunter-gatherers and the islands of Ireland

Grame Warren and Kieran Westley



5. Transformations of coast and culture: a view from the Latvian shore of the Baltic

Valdis Bērziņš



Part II: Coastal sites, mobility and networks



6. Diachronic trends among Early Mesolithic site types? A study from the coast of central Norway



Heidi Mjelva Breivik



7. The Mesolithic coastal exploitation of western Scotland: The impacts of climate change and use of favoured locations



Steven Mithen, Karen Wicks and Inger Marie Berg-Hansen



8. Specialists facing climate change. The 8200 cal BP event and its impact on the coastal settlement in the inner Oslo fjord, southeast Norway



Guro Fossum



9. Mesolithic networks of Atlantic France: the two faces of Brittany (7th and 6th millennia cal BC).



Grégor Marchand



Part III: The resources of the sea and beyond



10. Mesolithic fishing landscapes in western Norway

Knut Andreas Bergsvik and Kenneth Ritchie



11. Resource management in Late Mesolithic Eastern Norway? Fishing in the coastal, interior and mountain areas and its socio-economic implications

Axel Mjærum and Anja Mansrud



12. Seals on the ice: Integrating archaeology, zooarchaeology and isotopic studies to discuss some aspects of landscape use and subsistence choices in Stone Age coastal societies of the Baltic Sea

Aikaterini Glykou



13. The use of the Mesolithic coastal hinterland – an example from the palaeoecological investigations from Lake Skogstjern, Telemark, southeastern Norway

Magdalena Wieckowska-Lüth and Wiebke Kierleis



Part IV: The coastal zone: time depth, historicity and ritual practice



14. Nodal points in a Mesolithic mobile coastal world: monumental quarries in south Norway

Astrid J. Nyland



15. First visit or revisit? Motivations of mobility and the use and reuse of sites in the changing coastal areas of Mesolithic southeastern Norway

Almut Schülke



16. Ritual depositions in the coastal zone: A case from Syltholm, Denmark

Søren Anker Sørensen