Investigating Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Identities: Case Studies from Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Europe, (BAR S1411), 2005, 105 p. -

This volume stems from sessions at the 2004 Theoretical Archaeology Conference at Glasgow University, entitled “Hunter-Gatherers in Early Prehistory” and “Hunting for Meaning: Interpretive Approaches to the Mesolithic”. The sessions came about as a response to a continuing lack of appreciation of new developments in theoretical approaches to the archaeology of prehistoric hunter-gatherers both in the Pleistocene and Holocene. Contents: Hunter-Gatherers in Early Prehistory (F. Coward, L. Grimshaw); Upper Palaeolithic Social Colonisation and Lower Palaeolithic Biological Dispersal? A Consideration of the Nature of Movements into Europe During the Pleistocene (L. Grimshaw); Transitions, Change and Prehistory: An Ecosystemic Approach to Change in the Archaeological Record (F. Coward); Darwin Vs. Bourdieu – Celebrity Deathmatch or Postrocessual Myth? A Prolegomenon for the Reconciliation of Agentive-Interpretive and Ecological-Evolutionary Archaeology (F. Riede); We're Not Waiting Any More – Or, Hunting for Meaning in the Mesolithic of North-West Europe (H. Cobb, S. Price); Midden, Meaning, Person, Place: Interpreting the Mesolithic of Western Scotland (H. Cobb); Reconstructing the Social Topography of an Irish Mesolithic Lakescape (A. Little); Can't See the Trees for the Wood: The Social Life of Trees in the Mesolithic of Southern Scandinavia.