Britain inside or outside of Europe during the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition: a Lithics perspective

这个项目将调查公元前5000年大陆连接的新主张，并根据这些结果探索在公元前4000年左右定义新石器时代开始的变化的性质。这将提供一个新的区域，长期的角度来看，社会动态超过英国Mesolithic-NeolithicTransition，远离过度概括的模型。它将通过研究英国南部的中石器时代和新石器时代的石器组合来完成这一任务，这些石器组合来自于具有无与伦比的精确度的遗址。这些将被用来比较continentalassemblages使用新的统计技术，以获得微妙的理解不同的时间和节奏的英国过渡。

This project will investigate new claims for Continental connections in the fifthmillennium BC and based on these results explore the nature of changes thatdefine the start of the Neolithic at c4000BC. This will provide a new regional,long-term perspective on social dynamics over the British Mesolithic-NeolithicTransition that moves away from overgeneralised models. It will do this byexamining southern British Mesolithic and Neolithic lithic assemblages fromsites dated with unparalleled precision. These will be compared to continentalassemblages using novel statistical techniques to gain a nuanced understandingof the varied timings and tempos of the British Transition.