Hunter-gatherers transformed: the transition to agriculture in northern and western Euope

• Autores: Ian Armit, Bill Finlayson
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 66, Nº 252, 1992, págs. 664-676
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The quantity and quality of material from the late Mesolithic/early Neolithic in southern Scandinavia has dominated the study of this important period in northwest Europe. Recent evidence from the west of Scotland suggests that, despite a rich and varied resource base similar in many ways to that in southern Scandinavia, a very different process of change occurs. The evidence suggests a very gradual transformation, with selected parts of the farming socio-economy being being adopted at varying rates. This situation is compared with that in various parts of Europe and is considered to fit in well with a pattern of great regional diversity in the transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic.