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The Earliest Settlement of the West Baltic Area in the Light of Recent Research1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

J. G. D. Clark
J. G. D. Clark
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University
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When the present writer published his Mesolithic Settlement of Northern Europe in 1936, much had already been established about the pre-neolithic occupation of the West Baltic area. Paradoxically it is for this very reason that recent advances in this field are of more than regional interest, for it is only by intensifying fundamental research in the most favourable territories, in conjunction with more extensive surveys, that we can gain the evidence needed for a real insight into the processes of prehistory. One reason for the pre-eminence of the area in mesolithic research is the scope it provides for co-operation between archaeologists and natural scientists. Team-work in quaternary research has made it possible to study the earliest cultures in their correct chronological and ecological setting, and it has also guided prehistorians to the sites most likely to yield the maximum range of cultural evidence.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 16 , 1950 , pp. 87 - 100
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1950

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References

page 89 note 1 Simplified from Degerbol and Iversen, 1945, pl. VII.

page 89 note 2 Mannus Z., VII (1917), 233–40Google Scholar, taf. IV, 8.

page 90 note 1 Archiv. f. Anthrop., N.F. bd. XXI, 109–21Google Scholar, nos. 84–90.

page 93 note 1 Proc. Preh. Soc., 1949, 57Google Scholar and fig. 2, no. 16; also ibid, 1950, 114 and fig. 5.

page 93 note 2 See Miss Caton-Thompson, G., Proc. Prehist. Soc., 1946, 112Google Scholar, n. 3.

page 94 note 1 For details of this I have to thank Dr J. Troels-Smith and Herr K. Andersen.