The Oxford Handbook of Mesolithic Europe

Liv Nilsson Stutz is Professor of Archaeology at Linnaeus University and has a background in archaeology and biological anthropology. She is a specialist in burial archaeology with a particular focus on archeothanatology, ritual practice, ritual theory, and body theory, which she has applied in a reinterpretation of Mesolithic mortuary practices with case studies in Scandinavia, the Eastern Baltic, and Portugal. Her work also engages concepts of hunter gatherer cosmology and ontology. She has published broadly on the archaeology of death, archaeological method and theory, ritual theory, and on issues of research ethics. Rita Peyroteo Stjerna is a Researcher at the Department of Organismal Biology, Upssala University. She is a bioarchaeologist specializing in mortuary archaeology.She is trained in archaeothanatology, ancient DNA, radiocarbon, and stable isotopes. She thrives in interdisciplinary environments and has been working with archaeological human remains in museums in Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia. She holds a PhD in archaeology from Uppsala University, focusing on the role of mortuary ritual practice in Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, and she has published on Holocene hunter-gatherers in Western Europe integrating multiple disciplines. Her main interests are mortuary archaeology, archaeological science, and ethical issues concerning the biomolecular research of ancient human remains. Mari Tõrv is Associate Professor in Archaeology at the Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu. She is an archaeologist with a multi-disciplinary background in archaeology, human osteology, archaeothanatology, stable isotope studies, and ritual studies. Her research interests are wide, extending from hunter-gatherer mortuary practices and identities to the genetic history of Nordic and Eastern European populations together with life and death ways of early farmers and first Christians. Currently, her work bridges archaeology and chemistry to reconstruct past food ways and explore the research potential of archaeological human remains in general. Her work involves the application of the state-of-the-art methods in stable isotope studies and their combination with other biomolecular analysis to form narratives about past lifestyles.

Part I: MESOLITHIC EUROPE
1: Liv Nilsson Stutz, Rita Peyrotero Stjerna, and Mari Tõrv: Introduction: The Archaeology of Mesolithic Europe
2: Graeme Warren: The Mesolithic: What is it and Why Should We Care?
3: Philippe Crombé: Early and Middle Holocene Climate and Environmental Change
4: Rick J. Schulting and Christopher Meiklejohn: Time Matters: Chronology in the European Mesolithic
5: Peter Rowley-Conwy: Mesolithic Landscapes and Niche Construction: A Great Capability for Misunderstanding
Part II: MESOLITHIC GEOGRAPHIES
6: Ekaterina Dolbunova and Andrey Mazurkevich: Eastern Europe
7: Daniel Groß and Tomas Rimkus: The Baltic Basin: Northern Germany to the Baltic States
8: Kjel Knutsson: Northern Scandinavia
9: T. Douglas Price: Southern Scandinavia
10: James Walker, Vince Gaffney, Simon Fitch, and Andy Fraser: Doggerland
11: Catriona Pickard and Clive Bonsall: Britain and Ireland
12: Witold Grużdź, Daniel Groß, Katarzyna Pyżewicz, and Aliaksandr Vashanau: Continental European Plain
13: Paolo Biagi: The Black Sea Area
14: Ana Cristina Araújo and Grégor Marchand†: The Atlantic Coast (Western France, Northern Spain and Portugal)
15: Hans Vandendriessche, Colas Guéret, Benjamin Marquebielle, and Philippe Crombé: Continental France and the Benelux
16: Federica Fontana: Alpine Region (Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, and Northern Italy)
17: Thomas Perrin: The Western Mediterranean Coast and Islands (Spain, Balearic Islands, Corsica, Sardinia, France, Italy, Sicily, and North Africa)
18: Nena Galanidou, Nikola Vukosavljević, and Catherine Perlès: The Eastern Mediterranean
19: Clive Bonsall, Adina Boroneanț, and Monica Mărgărit: Southeast Europe (The Balkans and the Danube)
20: Aaron Jonas Stutz: The Natufian Archaeological Culture in Southwestern Asian Epipalaeolithic Context
Part III: HUNTER-GATHERER LANDSCAPES
21: Hein B. Bjerck: Sea
22: Ivana Živaljević: Rivers
23: Ingrid Fuglestvedt: The Pioneer Experience: A Perspective from the Early Mesolithic Site Complex at Pauler, Eastern Norway
24: Davide Visentin: Mountains and High Altitudes
25: Catherine Dupont and Igor Gutiérrez-Zugasti: Shell Middens and Shells
26: Barry Taylor: Wetland Landscapes
27: Alexander Verpoorte and Fulco Scherjon: Inland/Forest
Part IV: MESOLITHIC LIFE
28: Luciana G. Simões and Torsten Günther: Who Were the Mesolithic People: The Archaeogenomic Perspective
29: Daniela Holst: Hunter-Gatherer Mobility and Sedentism
30: Solange Rigaud and Aimée Little: Identity, Gender, and Power: Life Histories of Personal Ornaments, Stone Tools, and Other Artefacts
31: Aaron Jonas Stutz: Demography, Life Histories, and Population Dynamics
32: Jörg Orschiedt: Violence
33: Ben Elliot: Sensory Experiences
34: Gunilla Eriksson and Kerstin Lidén: Food and Diet: A Châine Opératoire Perspective on Hunter-Gatherer Food Practice
35: Mariana Diniz: Coexistence with Neolithic Neighbours
36: Barry Taylor and Nick J. Overton: Relationships with the Environment: Plants and Animals
Part V: MEANINGFUL TECHNOLOGY
37: Ole Grøn: Shelter and Dwellings
38: Nick J. Overton: Hunting
39: Harry K. Robson, Adam Boethius, and Kenneth Ritchie: Fishing
40: Lucy Kubiak-Martens: The Plant Food Diet of Mesolithic Northwestern Europe
41: Ekaterina Kashina: Art and Symbolism: The Forms and Meanings of the Portable Art of the East European Plain Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers
42: Miriam Cubas and Harry K. Robson: Pottery Production among European Foragers
43: Mikkel Sørensen: Lithic Technology
44: Eva David: Bone Tool Technology
45: Astrid J. Nyland: Quarrying and Lithic Procurement
46: Kurt J. Gron: Animal Domestication in the Mesolithic
47: Kristiina Johanson, Dagmara H. Werra, Aivar Kriiska, and Javier Mangado Llach: Flint Exchange
48: Aija Macane and Kerkko Nordqvist: Exchange of Amber
49: Andrew Langley and Aimée Little: Birch, Pine, and Other Adhesive Technologies
Part VI: DEATH AND THE DEAD
50: Amy Gray Jones: Human Remains in Non-Burial Contexts
51: Mari Torv and Rita Peyroteo Stjerna: From the Treatment of the Body to the Places of the Dead
52: Rock Images of the Dead: Glimpses of Past Mortuary Processes or Pictures of a Plaguea
53: Liv Nilsson Stutz: The Handling of the Dead Body: Transformations from Life to Death
Part VII: COSMOLOGIES, RITUAL, AND SYMBOLISM
54: Charlotte Damm: Forager Cosmologies in Northernmost Europe
55: Kristiina Mannermaa: Human-Animal Relationships
56: Chantal Conneller and Ben Elliott: Metamorphosis
57: Tomasz Płonka: Sculpture and Art (Portable and Non-Portable)
58: Antti Lahelma and Jan Magne Gjerde: Rock Art
59: Mathias Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist: Hoarding