Mesolithic Neolithic transition

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Noe-Nygaard, N. 1988 8 C values of dog bones reveal the nature of changes in man s food resources at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition. Isotope Geoscience 73 87-96. 

Schulting, R.J. and Richards, M.P. (2002). The wet, the wild and the domesticated the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition on the west coast of Scotland. European Journal of Archaeology 5 147-189. 

Evershed, R.P. (2007) Exploiting molecular and isotopic signals at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition. Proceedings of the British Academy, 144,141-164. 

The debate intensified recently with the publication of Richards et al. (2003), which claimed that, in Britain at least, on the evidence of bone collagen < 13, the transition from the Mesolithic to Neolithic (c. 4000 cal. bc) was a sharp one, with a complete abandonment of marine resources in the Neolithic, even by coastal communities (Fig. 8.10). This was further interpreted as being the result of a very rapid adoption of the Neolithic lifestyle of plant and animal domestication, contrary to earlier views which argued for a gradual shift. Perhaps predictably, this has provoked a sharp debate focusing on both the interpretation of isotopic evidence (Milner et al. 2003) and on evidence to the contrary for other parts of Europe (Liden et al. 2003). Milner et al. (2003) summarize the assumptions upon which the... 

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