Early agriculture in Southern Scandinavia

The author discusses the confusion concerning the transition from the mesolithic to the neolithic in Southern Scandinavia, and the relationship of this confusion to the chronological, evolutionary classification system employed at present. He suggests the advantages of using a systemic approach instead. As little is known of the actual economies operative at the time, the hypothesis is suggested that agriculture did not only spread from the southeast, but was actually being developed by the indigenous populations at the time of the arrival of previously domesticated plants and animals. Several methods of testing this hypothesis are discussed

Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Confusion · Domestication · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Mesolithic · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

• Cockle Conversations

  Open Access•Eva Laurie•Internet Archaeology•2007

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• The debate on the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the western Baltic

  Lutz Klassen•Journal of Danish Archaeology•1997

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• Books

  Kent V Flannery•Scientific American•1967

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• The Origins of Agriculture

  Open Access•Eric Higgs, E S Higgs et al.•Antiquity•1969

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• New Perspectives in Archeology

  Bruce G Trigger, Sally R Binford et al.•Man•1969

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