Mesolithic
The Beaver Hunters: new interpretations of people/animal interactions at Star Carr
Ben Elliot (University of York, UK)
Chronology and Ecology of later Mesolithic disturbance episodes in North West Europe: adoption of new ideas in prehistory and in contemporary archaeology
Jeff Blackford, Jim Innes, Peter Ryan and Peter Rowley-Conwy (University of Manchester and University of Durham, UK)
A Marshland people? Mesolithic life in the Eastern Vale of Pickering
Barry Taylor (University of Manchester, UK)
Archaeological and palaeo-environmental research in the eastern Vale of Pickering has recorded an extensive wetland of lakes, marshes and fens that was inhabited by hunter-gatherers throughout the Mesolithic. Analysis of the archaeological material has described a dynamic picture of human activity across this landscape (e.g. Conneller 2005; Conneller & Schadla-Hall 2003) but comparatively little work has been done its relationship with the wetland environments.
Becoming Neolithic in a wetland: fluidity, choice and the transition to agriculture in the Lower Rhine Delta (5500-2500 cal BC)
Luc Amkreutz (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
The wetlands and wetland margins of the Lower Rhine area form a rich and
Animating the past, thinking temporally: ways of representing archaeological time
Seren Griffiths (Cardiff University)
Perceptions of the Environment in Early Prehistory
Elizabeth Dewing (University of Southampton; ead106@soton.ac.uk) and Barry Taylor (University of Manchester; barry.taylor1@manchester.ac.uk)
Challenging the relationship between people and their environment was a key principle in the development of post-Processualism and its critique of New Archaeology. But whilst the overtly deterministic and functionalist nature of this relationship was quickly rejected, alternative approaches to environmental archaeology have been slow to develop, particularly in comparison to material culture studies and landscape archaeology.
Prehistoric Identities: Individuals and their Worlds
Karen Ruebens (University of Southampton; karen.ruebens@soton.ac.uk), Dave Underhill-Stocks (University of Southampton; drus105@soton.ac.uk) and James Cole (University of Southampton; jnc201@soton.ac.uk)
