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，并基于这些结果探索定义公元前4000年新石器时代开始的变化的本质。这将为英国中石器时代-新石器时代的过渡提供一个新的地区性、长期的社会动态视角，摆脱过度泛化的模式。它将通过研究英国南部中石器时代和新石器时代的岩屑组合来做到这一点，这些岩屑组合的年代具有无与伦比的精确度。这些数据将用新的统计技术与大陆的组合进行比较，以获得对英国过渡的不同时间和节奏的细微差别的理解。

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.