The results suggest that Late Mesolithic coastal communities were affected by a marked decrease in marine productivity that resulted from the cooling caused by the 8.2 ka event and a subsequent cold episode at ca. The dissertation takes an organisational approach to the study of past cultural change and seeks to understand changes in prehistoric material culture by studying lithic technology and settlement configuration using lithic technological, statistical, and spatial analyses. The study discusses whether climatic cooling and its effects on the biotic environment could explain the way lithic technology and settlement patterns were reorganised during the Late Mesolithic. The study uses a framework derived from Darwinian evolutionary theory and acknowledges the effects of both environmental constraints and socially transmitted information, i.e., culture, in the way lithic technology was organised in the studied region. 8450 6850 cal BP) lithic technological changes in the northernmost parts of Finland, Norway, and Sweden and on the relationship between these changes and the 8.2 ka climate event that was caused by a disruption in the North Atlantic Thermohaline circulation. "This dissertation focuses on Late Mesolithic (ca. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 33, 84–98. Lithic raw material diversification as an adaptive strategy–Technology, mobility, and site structure in Late Mesolithic northernmost Europe. Monographs of the Archaeological Society of Finland 1, 177–211. Rankama (Ed.), Mesolithic Interfaces – Variability in Lithic Technologies in Eastern Fennoscandia. Descent History of Mesolithic Oblique Points in Eastern Fennoscandia – a Technological Comparison Between Two Artefact Populations. Journal of Archaeological Science 37, 2442–2448. How flakes shatter: a critical evaluation of quartz fracture analysis. Embedded with permission from Oxbow books. Woodman (Eds.), Mesolithic Horizons, Vol. Evidence of mobility between the coast and the inland region in the Mesolithic of Northern Fennoscandia. Monographs of the Archaeological Society of Finland 1, 143–175. Northern Inland Oblique Point Sites – a New Look into the Late Mesolithic Oblique Point Tradition in Eastern Fennoscandia. The main thesis incorporates the following embedded articles: Paper I.
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