ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINANTS OF CULTURAL CHANGES IN THE LATE GLACIAL AND THE EARLY HOLOCENE ON THE NORTH EUROPEAN PLAIN (Srodowiskowe uwarunkowania przemian kulturowych u schylku poznego glacjalu i w poczatkach holocenu na Nizu Pólnocnoeuropejskim)

• Authors: Kabacinski Jacek , Sobkowiak-Tabaka Iwona
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The matter of causes and mechanisms behind the radical cultural modification, which occurred at the turn of the Late Glacial and the Early Holocene and was characterized by the Mesolithic communities settlement throughout the North European Plain, constitutes the most vividly discussed issue connected with research on hunter-gatherer societies of that area. Fast and profound transformations of natural environment, taking place in that period all over the Plain, are the essential element of this debate. The article presents the latest results of the investigations into the changes of natural environment. It also argues basic conceptions concerning the disappearance of the Late Palaeolithic groups and the settlement of the Mesolithic communities in the north of Europe. In the authors' opinion, the process of cultural transformations that can be observed in the North European Plain between ca. 10000-9000 BC was an independent phenomenon lasting together with co-occurring environmental changes. Their synchronism was absolutely coincidental. Thus, the natural environment transformations can be treated only as a kind of catalyst of limited (and diversified) influence but not as decisive and causative factor.

Keywords

EN

EARLY MESOLITHIC; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LATE GLACIAL; LATE PALAEOLITHIC; PALAEOLITHIC-MESOLITHIC TRANSITION

Discipline

• ARCHAEOLOGY: ARCHAEOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Przegląd Archeologiczny
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 58
• Pages: 5-21
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kabacinski Jacek

author

Sobkowiak-Tabaka Iwona

• Jacek Kabacinski, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka, Instytut Archeologii I Etnologii PAN, Oddzial w Poznaniu, ul. Rubiez 46, 61-612 Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA096226