A drowned Mesolithic shell midden complex at Hjarnø Vesterhoved, Denmark and its wider significance

A drowned Mesolithic shell midden complex at Hjarnø Vesterhoved, Denmark and its wider significance

Anthropogenic shell accumulations (shell middens), often of great size, occur in their tens of thousands around the world's coastlines. They mostly date from the Mid-Holocene onwards and are frequently taken as symptomatic of a Postglacial ‘revolution’ involving world-wide population growth and...

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Main Authors: Astrup, P.M (Author), Baggaley, P. (Author), Bailey, G. (Author), Benjamin, J. (Author), Fowler, M. (Author), Jerbić, K. (Author), McCarthy, J. (Author), Skriver, C. (Author), Stankiewicz, F. (Author), Wiseman, C. (Author), Woo, K. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd 2021
Subjects:
Anthropogenics
archaeological evidence
Coastal geomorphology
Denmark
Deposits
Economics
Geological surveys
geomorphology
Geomorphology
Geophysical survey
Geophysical surveys
Geophysics
History
Holocene
human settlement
Marine biology
Marine mollusc
Marine molluscs
Mesolithic
midden
Mollusca
Pleistocene
population growth
Population statistics
Postglacial
rarity
Scandinavia
Sea level
sea level change
Sealevel change
Sea-level changes
shell
Shells (structures)
Stratigraphy
Submerged landscape
Submerged landscapes
subsistence
Taphonomy
Underwater archaeology
Underwater archeology
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