The Nab Head
The Nab Head is an archaeological site in Wales home to Mesolithic people from around 8500 BC. Stayed. At that time, however, the outcrop was not yet on the coast, at St Brides Bay , but about 6 km inland. From there one had an overview of a wide coastal plain.
No traces of settlement were discovered, but thousands of stone tools such as microliths , drills, scrapers for cleaning hides, as well as numerous waste from stone processing. It's almost entirely flint. In addition, there are more than 700 pierced slate beads that were found among the tool waste. The pearls are believed to have symbolized the status of the wearer. The site was used until the late Mesolithic, it was interpreted as a kind of production facility. A total of 31,797 artifacts with 603 identifiable tools were found on an area of 195 m². Three activity zones were identified that may have been marked and respected by subsequent users of the site. An unused area with a diameter of 5 m was also found. Andrew David suspected there was a hut there. The (possible) remnant of a waste pit originates from the late Mesolithic .
The excavation began in 1925, initially under the direction of Gordon Williams.
literature
- Andrew David: Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Settlement in Wales with special reference to Dyfed (= British Archaeological Reports British Series, 448), Archaeopress, Oxford 2007, pp. 131–159.
Web links
- The Nab Head, Pembrokeshire , Lleolir Ymddiriedolaeth Archaeolegol Dyfed / Dyfed Archaeological Trust (Welsh / English)
- The Mesolithic in Wales
Remarks
- ↑ Malcolm Little: Hunters, Fishers and Foragers in Wales. Towards a Social Narrative of Mesolithic Lifeways , Oxbow Books, Oxford / Philadelphia 2015, p. 130.
- ↑ Malcolm Little: Hunters, Fishers and Foragers in Wales. Towards a Social Narrative of Mesolithic Lifeways , Oxbow Books, Oxford / Philadelphia 2015, p. 118.