Microliths and maritime mobility: a continental European-style Late Mesolithic flint assemblage from the Isles of Scilly
Microliths and maritime mobility: a continental European-style Late Mesolithic flint assemblage from the Isles of Scilly
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10.15184/aqy.2015.77
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发表时间：
2015-08-01
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1.8
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Sturt, Fraser
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作者：
Anderson-Whymark, Hugo;Garrow, Duncan;Sturt, Fraser
公元前7000年，英国与欧洲大陆分离后，新形成的英吉利海峡两岸的中石器时代石器传统开始朝着不同的方向发展。在公元前4000年初，法国北方的农业（可能还有农民）扩张之前，跨越海峡的接触模式很难在这些材料中破译。因此，在不列颠南部西端的锡利群岛发现中石器时代晚期的细石器，显然与比利时人有亲缘关系，这是一件令人惊讶的事情。这篇文章详细描述了这一发现，沿着了可能解释这一发现的其他情景。文章后面是一系列评论，以及作者的结束语。
Once Britain had become separated from the European mainland in the seventh millennium BC, Mesolithic stone tool traditions on opposite sides of the newly formed Channel embarked upon different directions of development. Patterns of cross-Channel contact have been difficult to decipher in this material, prior to the expansion of farming (and possibly farmers) from northern France at the beginning of the fourth millennium BC. Hence the discovery of Late Mesolithic microliths of apparently Belgian affinity at the western extremity of southern Britain in the Isles of Scilly comes as something of a surprise. The find is described here in detail, along with alternative scenarios that might explain it. The article is followed by a series of comments, with a closing reply from the authors.