Star Carr
Star Carr is an early Mesolithic site of the Klosterlund group of the Maglemose culture near Scarborough in North Yorkshire on the east coast of England . It is the camp site of a group of hunters and gatherers on a lake that is now silted up.
Star Carr is the richest mesolithic site in England in terms of wood and bone artefacts because of its moist soil conservation . It was excavated between 1949 and 1951 by the British prehistorian Grahame Clark and published in 1954. At the University of Manchester, Professor Clark said at the end of the investigation: "One of the main results of the research at Star Carr is that we got an idea of how our Mesolithic ancestors exploited the sources of life in their immediate surroundings." The plant remains in the mud and Peat indicated that the natural environment of this settlement was a wet bank landscape with birch trees and, a little further away, pine forest. It dates to 9488 ± 350 (uncal.).
Finds
A settlement area of 16.5 by 14.5 meters was excavated.
- Of wood were arrows and bows , hatchet and Speerschäfte, paddle , fish forks and perforated discs (round heads) made.
- One-sided harpoons , spearheads with barbs, chisels , pressure rods, fur scrapers, antler axes with angled cutting edge or socket axes with stone inserts were made from deer antlers .
In addition to the finds listed above, 17,000 flint artifacts were also found, of which over 7 percent were tools. The flint tools include core and disc axes , blades , scrapers , drills, burins and microliths . Micro-engravings were produced as waste products from the production of microliths . Also cross-edged arrowheads were found.
The bones of 80 deer , 33 roe deer , 11 elk , 9 aurochs , 5 wild boars and numerous water birds were found.
See also
literature
- Chris Scarre (Ed.): The Human Past. World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies. Thames & Hudson, London 2005, ISBN 0-500-28531-4 .
- Anthony J. Legge, Peter Rowley-Conwy: Star Carr Revisited. A re-analysis of the Large Mammals. Center for Extra-Mural Studies, London 1988, ISBN 0-7187-0876-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ John Coles, Robert Bewley, Paul Mellars (Eds.): World Prehistory. Studies in memory of Grahame Clark (= Proceedings of the British Academy. 99). Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 1999, ISBN 0-19-726196-5 , 215-217.
- ↑ Karel Sklenář: Traces of the Past. Archeology in Europe. Prisma-Verlag, Leipzig 1983, p. 47.
Coordinates: 54 ° 12 ′ 51.4 " N , 0 ° 25 ′ 24.5" W.