The Oxford Handbook of Mesolithic Europe

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