Stones of Contention: lithics and the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition in Cumbria

该项目正在调查坎布里亚的中石器时代/新石器时代的过渡，以牛津考古在卡莱尔北部开发路线之前发现的保存异常完好的斯坦顿西部遗址为基础。该学生将把这一发现和坎布里亚郡最近的其他重要发现联系起来。该地区的考古资料保存得特别完好，包括石器工具和化石植物遗骸。这两类证据将构成有关人类对物质文化和自然世界的转变的两个相互联系的调查的基础。

This project is investigating the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition in Cumbria, building on the discovery of the exceptionally well preserved site at Stainton West discovered by Oxford Archaeology in advance of the Carlisle Northern Development Route. The studentship will contextualise this and other important recent discoveries in Cumbria. Archaeological data form the region is particularly well preserved as collections of stone tools and fossil plant remains. These two categories of evidence will form the basis of two linked investigations concerned with human transformations of material culture and the natural world.