The British stuff is still really dominated by assemblages from
individual sites - Star Carr (with its multiple interpretations) for
example has provided the predominant model of terrestrial faun and its
exploitation in the early Meso. The best place to start to get an idea
of the different discussions surrounding it is Tony Legge & Peter
Rowley-Conwy's 'Star Carr Revisited' Published by Extra Mural Studies,
Uni of London. That gives a good summary of the different
interpretations of the fauna up to their own re-analysis.
The marine side of things has a much larger body of literature - the
best places to start would really be general papers dealing with the
shell middens from Denmark. There's also some emphasis on fowling and
animals hunted exclusively for fur within the middens - look for papers
by Soren Andresen, Bodil Bratlund and Peter Rowley-Conwy - Journal of
Danish Archaeology is a good place to look for reviews, and Journal of
Archaeological Science has some detailed papers relating to specific
studies. Oronsay is one of the main British shell-midden sites,
published as a monograph by Paul Mellars some years ago. More recently
Nicky Milner has been working on Oysters and the like - I'm not sure if
most of her stuff is 'in press' or published yet, but scan recent issues
of J Arch Sci.
Penny Spikins has been doing GIS work on the Mesolithic, centred on the
Yorkshire Moors - there is some faunal modelling in her work - her PhD
has recently been published as a BAR, and there's a paper in a recent J
Arch. sci.
Happy hunting,
Ruth
Melanie Wilson wrote:
> Can anyone suggest books giving a good general overview on this
> subject ? Thanks Mel
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