Reindeer hunters at Howburn Farm, South Lanarkshire : a late Hamburgian settlement in Southern Scotland - its lithic artefacts and natural environment /

Reindeer hunters at Howburn Farm, South Lanarkshire : a late Hamburgian settlement in Southern Scotland - its lithic artefacts and natural environment /

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Author / Creator:	Ballin, Torben Bjarke, author.
Imprint:	Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2018. ©2018
Description:	1 online resource (xx, 124 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Language:	English
Subject:	Excavations (Archaeology) -- Scotland -- Lanarkshire. Antiquities. Excavations (Archaeology) Lanarkshire (Scotland) -- Antiquities. Scotland -- Lanarkshire.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13429265

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Other authors / contributors:	Tipping, Richard, author. Archaeopress, publisher.
ISBN:	9781784919023 1784919020
Notes:	Previously issued in print: 2018. Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service. Includes bibliographical references. Open Access Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 8, 2018). Print version record.
Summary:	This volume presents the lithic assemblage from Howburn in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, which at present is the oldest prehistoric settlement in Scotland (12,700-12,000 BC), and the only Hamburgian settlement in Britain. The site also included a scatter from the Late Upper Palaeolithic Federmesser-Gruppen period (12,000-10,800 BC), as well as lithics from the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. The text focuses on the Hamburgian finds, which are mainly based on the exploitation of flint from Doggerland, the then dry bed of the North Sea.
Target Audience:	Specialized.
Other form:	Print version: Print version: Ballin, Torben Bjarke. Reindeer hunters at Howburn Farm, South Lanarkshire. Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2018 1784919020 9781784919023

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Summary:	This volume presents the lithic assemblage from Howburn in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, which at present is the oldest prehistoric settlement in Scotland (12,700-12,000 BC), and the only Hamburgian settlement in Britain. The site also included a scatter from the Late Upper Palaeolithic Federmesser- Gruppen period (12,000-10,800 BC), as well as lithics from the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. The book focuses on the Hamburgian finds, which are mainly based on the exploitation of flint from Doggerland, the then dry bed of the North Sea. The Hamburgian tools include tanged arrowheads, scrapers, piercers, burins, and other implement forms which show similarities with tools of the same age on the European continent. The shape of one scatter suggests that the Palaeolithic settlers lived in tent-like structures. The Palaeolithic finds from Howburn shed light on several important general trends, such as the 'acclimatization' of pioneer settlers, as well as the development of regional differences following the initial Late Glacial recolonization of Scotland. Palaeo-environmental work focused on whether there was a small lake ('Loch Howburn') in front of the terrace on which the camp was situated, and it was concluded that there was indeed a lake there, but it was neither contemporary with the Hamburgian, nor the Federmesser-Gruppen settlement. Most likely, 'Loch Howburn' dates to the Loch Lomond stadial.
Item Description:	Previously issued in print: 2018. Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xx, 124 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Audience:	Specialized.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9781784919023 1784919020
Access:	Open Access