Antlers, bone pins and flint blades: the Mesolithic cemeteries of Téviec and Hoëdic, Brittany

Antiquity ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 70 (268) ◽  
pp. 335-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rick J. Schulting
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Small Islands ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
New Information ◽  
Late Mesolithic

The late Mesolithic sites of Téviec and Hoëdic, located on what are now small islands off the Breton coast, provide evidence for elaborate burial practices, and may be precursors of the megalithic tradition of Brittany and western Europe in general. This paper briefly summarizes what is known of the sites and examines patterning in the distribution of grave inclusions. Differences as well as similarities between the sites are found. When examined carefully and critically, older excavation reports can yield much new information.

scholarly journals Late Atlantic Settlement in Southern Portugal - Results of an excavation of a Mesolithic shell midden by the River Sado

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-139
Author(s):  
Lars Larsson
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Coastal Area ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Shell Midden ◽  
Settlement Site ◽  
Southern Portugal ◽  
Late Mesolithic ◽  
General Conditions

The study of large settlement sites with graves from the Late Mesolithic has changed our conception of this period. In western Europe this kind of antiquity has long been known, and it is well represented in the coastal area of western Iberia. One settlement site —Popas de Sao Bento, near the River Sado in southern Portugal — has recently been excavated as part of a joint Swedish-Portuguese project. The results of the excavation give interesting perspectives on specific and general conditions in a broader geographical, chronological, and social context.

Information in the Welfare State: Problems and Approaches

1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 165-180
Author(s):  
Yrjö Littunen
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
School Science ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Science Journalism ◽  
New Information ◽  
Partial Isolation

The most comprehensive approaches toward understanding information in modern ‘welfare states’ have been focussed on outlining state regulation in the monopoly stage of capitalism. This theoretical orientation has instigated a number of studies penetrating into the use of information for the purposes of state control and regulation, e.g. in income policies as well as in legislation. Less developed is the study of the other side of the dialectic: how do counter-processes manifest themselves in the course of increasing bureaucratic-corporativist regulation and control? Evidence on following tendencies in ‘welfare states’ in Western Europe and their accentuation in Scandinavia is discussed. (1) Fragmentation and partial isolation of the traditional information institutions (school, science, journalism) from contemporary information-steering processes, necessitated by increasing flows of raw information in the market of knowledge. (2) Emergence of new information-steering activities, often in organized, institutionalized forms. (3) New information-steering is developed for centralized, state-monopoly regulated information needs and, on the other hand, for democratic information needs: these trends and counter-trends depend not only on power changes in the class struggle but also on changes in the content and experience-coping of information available for the large majorities of the population.

scholarly journals Tectonic-thermal constraints on the Pb-Zn ore deposits from southeastern French Central Massif by K-Ar and Pb-Pb dating of illite

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-321
Author(s):  
Theofilos Toulkeridis ◽  
Nicole Liewig
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Isotopic Signature ◽  
Ore Deposits ◽  
Massif Central ◽  
Sedimentary Sequences ◽  
New Information ◽  
Heat Transfers ◽  
Thermal Pulses ◽  
Hydrothermal Activities

Illite-rich size-fractions (<0.2, <0.4, 0.4-1, 0.4-2 and <2 µm) of Cambrian, Permian, Triassic and Jurassic calcschists, shales and dolostones from Pb-Zn ore-district of the southeastern French Massif Central were dated by the K-Ar method, and some by the Pb-Pb method after removal of the Pb external to the illite particles. The combined mineralogical and isotopic determinations show that illitization occurred successively at 285 ± 5, 240 ± 20, 185 ± 15, 140 ± 10 and 105 ± 5 Ma in the district. These tectonic-thermal pulses, which were also reported at a larger regional scale, did not systematically release Pb-mineralizing fluids. The mineralizing episodes seem to have only contributed to contemporaneous illitization and Pb precipitation at 191 ± 41 Ma, by Pb-Pb dating of illite, and at 105 ± 5 Ma in a reactivated fault containing illite mixed with Pb precipitates. The scatter of the Pb-Pb data suggests an incompletely equilibrated Pb isotopic signature when incorporated into the illite structure during crystallization. Pb-isotopic determinations of barren illite-type minerals provide new information about the circulation timing of the mineralizing hydrothermal fluids. The fluid migrations related to recurrent hydrothermal activities occurred within a segment of a continental margin that was located away from main rift zones and far (more than 500 km) from major orogenic zones of Western Europe. The lack of major geodynamic activities near metal deposits needs to hypothesize periodic migrations of hot -fluids in the underneath continental crust. Metals were concentrated at specific places, but not necessarily during each tectonic-thermal pulse recorded by illite. These tectonic-thermal activities confirm local geodynamic re-activations of previously occurring events with effects on local mass and heat transfers in the plutonic basements, as well as in the sedimentary sequences.

The oldest metallurgy in western Europe

Antiquity ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 73 (282) ◽  
pp. 897-903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arturo Ruiz-Taboada ◽  
Ignacio Montero-Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
European Region ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Neolithic Site ◽  
New Information ◽  
Southeast Spain

Recent excavations at the Neolithic site of Cerro Virtud (Almería, southeast Spain) have produced new information about the development of metallurgy that may change ongoing research not only in the Iberian Peninsula but also in the rest of western Europe. The discovery of metallurgy in this region in the first half of the 5th millennium BC poses serious challenges to the interpretation of how this industry developed and spread, given that the nearest European region with similar evidence is the Balkans. This study presents the archaeological context of the discovery and the various analytical techniques (XRF, SEM, 14C) that have been applied to it.

scholarly journals Bio cash-cow? Context and content of Czech organic farming

2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 45-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Zagata
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Organic Farming ◽  
Organic Agriculture ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Current Problem ◽  
Value Orientation ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Organic Movement

This work presents results of a qualitative empirical study on practices of farmers participating in the Czech system of organic agriculture (ecological agriculture). Growth of this sector has been seen almost solely in positive terms, without questioning its content. However, Czech organic agriculture does not stem from the organic movement as is the case in Western Europe and therefore it is necessary to ask what it draws on and to discover, with regard to its nature, whether it can meet the expectations stated in official policies. This paper briefly describes the development of organic farming in other countries and the current problem of its conventionalization. The research study then shows evidence that organic farming is not adopted only because of state’s subsidies, but also due to the specific value orientation of farmers, despite the history and the lack of tradition of these specific practices in the Czech Republic.

scholarly journals KEY TRENDS IN EUROPEAN RETAIL BANKING AND PROSPECTS FOR THEIR DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE

2019 ◽  
pp. 140-153
Author(s):  
Serhiy KYRYLENKO
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Retail Banking ◽  
New Information ◽  
Banking Business ◽  
European Banking ◽  
Marketing Tool ◽  
Domestic Banks ◽  
Further Development

The modern banking sector of Ukraine is subject to technological influences from the financial services market of Western Europe. The article identifies key strategic directions for banking business development in the conditions of rapid technological change and transformation of the financial service consumption model. The study aims to identify the modern tendencies in banking and the prospects for implementing separate models and instruments in view of the realities of the domestic retail banking practice. The study reveals the main principles of building customer-oriented strategies in European banking. The author studies practical aspects of using new information technology as a marketing tool in the context of sales growth in the retail banking sector. In having performed the analysis of the world experience and its impact on the marketing models of domestic banks, the author identifies and suggests main directions for further development of the domestic banks that are focused on providing services to private individuals and population in general.

‘Tilbury Man’: A Mesolithic Skeleton from the Lower Thames

2013 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 19-37
Author(s):  
Rick Schulting
Keyword(s):  
Adult Male ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
Ams Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
North Shore ◽  
The North ◽  
Richard Owen ◽  
Late Mesolithic ◽  
Partial Skeleton

‘Tilbury Man’ is the partial skeleton of an adult male found in 1883 during the construction of new docks at Tilbury, Essex, on the north shore of the Thames, approximately half way between London and the mouth of the estuary. At the time the find stirred considerable interest due to its depth of nearly 10 m, with the eminent biologist and palaeontologist Sir Richard Owen hailing it as being of Palaeolithic age, though most subsequent (and even contemporary) researchers assigned it to the early Holocene. AMS radiocarbon dating now places the skeleton in the Late Mesolithic, 6065–5912 cal bc. This paper presents the circumstances of the find, describes the surviving skeletal elements, including two healed cranial injuries, and places Tilbury in the context of what little is known regarding Late Mesolithic burial practices in Britain

scholarly journals Evidence of paleoecological changes and Mousterian occupations at the Galería de las Estatuas site, Sierra de Atapuerca, northern Iberian plateau, Spain

2017 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Luis Arsuaga ◽  
Asier Gómez-Olivencia ◽  
Nohemi Sala ◽  
Virginia Martínez-Pillado ◽  
Adrián Pablos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Change ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Red Deer ◽  
Sedimentary Sequence ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Palynological Analysis ◽  
Cave System ◽  
New Information ◽  
Tree Coverage ◽  
Taphonomic Analysis

AbstractHere we present a new site in the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain): Galería de las Estatuas (GE), which provides new information about Mousterian occupations in the Iberian Plateau. The GE was an ancient entrance to the cave system, which is currently closed and sealed by a stalagmitic crust, below which a detritic sedimentary sequence of more than 2 m is found. This has been divided into five litostratigraphic units with a rich assemblage of faunal and lithic remains of clear Mousterian affinity. Radiocarbon dates provide minimum ages and suggest occupations older than 4514C ka BP. The palynological analysis detected a landscape change to increased tree coverage, which suggests that the sequence recorded a warming episode. The macromammal assemblage is composed of both ungulates (mainly red deer and equids) and carnivores. Taphonomic analysis reveals both anthropic, and to a lesser extent, carnivore activities. The GE was occupied by Neanderthals and also sporadically by carnivores. This new site broadens the information available regarding different human occupations at the Sierra de Atapuerca, which emphasizes the importance of this site-complex for understanding human evolution in Western Europe.

scholarly journals T-shaped antler axes on the territory of Belarus

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-213
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Vashanov ◽  
Anna Andreevna Malyutina ◽  
Mariya Ivanovna Tkacheva ◽  
Evgenia Sergeevna Tkach
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Complex Analysis ◽  
Northern Coast ◽  
Local Production ◽  
River Channels ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Production Wastes ◽  
First Time ◽  
Late Mesolithic

T-shaped antler axes are widely represented in Western Europe, both by occasional findings and materials from well researched settlements. This type of axe is most often found on the Ertebelle culture sites in Denmark and on the northern coast of Germany. Products of this type are also known in the context of the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic settlements in the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium. At the time of writing, 21 T-shaped antler axes are known in Belarus, as well as their production waste. The tools come from 11 locations. All locations are situated in western Belarus, in the basins of the Western Bug and Neman rivers. The presented artefacts have been found accidentally in river channels or in the coastal, often flooded zone. The locations do not have a clearly defined cultural and chronological context. In the location of Mikhnevichi, a few specific axe production wastes of this type have been discovered, indicating the existence of local production of these tools. In this connection, the authors of the study have suggested that there should be a connection between antler T-axes and Neolithic forest cultures of western Belarus. The paper presents the results of a complex analysis of T-shaped antler axes from the territory of Belarus with a detailed description of each artifact. Most of the materials are published for the first time.

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