For More Information

If you’re interested in learning more about the Mesolithic, check out the sources listed below.  I’ve used a lot of them in this blog.

The Mesolithic in general:

The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age by Richard Rudgley, 1999, is a very good book.  While it doesn’t cover diet very well, it provides a good overview of technological developments during all of the Stone Ages: http://www.amazon.com/The-Lost-Civilizations-Stone-Age/dp/0684862700

Microburin’s blog at http://microburin.com/

Check out what the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has: http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/behavior/food

For more information about Tybrind Vig in particular, look here:

Kubiak-Marten’s fascinating article on the plant remains found: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23417650

An article by Torben Malm about the excavations at Tybrind Vig: http://www.abc.se/~pa/publ/tybrind.htm

And here’s what Wikipedia has to say about the Ertebølle Culture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erteb%C3%B8lle_culture

For Franchthi cave, look here:

Dartmouth has a very informative page: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~prehistory/aegean/?page_id=107

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchthi_Cave

Archaeology.about.com has some basic information about the excavations: http://archaeology.about.com/od/archa13/a/franchthi.htm

Mathilda’s Anthropology Blog provides a good, in depth summary of artifacts and remains found at the site during all periods of its occupation: http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/inhabited-for-17000-years-franchthi-cave-greece/

Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of information about El Collado (other than for hotels), but there are two scientific articles:

Guixé, Richards, and Subirà wrote an article called “Palaeodiets of Humans and Fauna at the Spanish Mesoolithic Site of El Collado” in 2006: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/504170

Alrousan, Al-Shorman, Galbany, and Perez-Perez wrote an article discussing microwear on teeth and stable isotopic analysis called “Buccal dental microwear and stable isotopes of El Collado: A Mesolithic site from Spain”: http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/154093

For Mount Sandel:

Irish Archaeology has an amazing page: http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/07/mount-sandel-a-mesolithic-campsite/

Rachel MacLean’s article “Eat Your Greens: An Eamination of the Potential Diet Available in Ireland during the Mesolithic” from 1993 covers a lot of sites, including Mount Sandel: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20568181