Re: Food Culture: Mesolithic Western Europe.

In sci.archaeology message news:ed3pce$t01$1@xxxxxxxxx by "Uwe
Müller" <uwemueller@xxxxxxxxxx> . . . :

compare their results. I can see people going to meetings and
scribbling down what some french archaeologist has to say about
work he did 20 years ago but forgot to publish.

The Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog
http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk.html gives lots of hits on
the French Mesolithic, if the spelling is correct, a few are
listed below:

Lets's see if I can Parse these out into in a from intelligable
by members of the species Homo sapiens [sapiens].

Actes du XIVème congrès UISPP, Université de Liège, Belgique, 2 - 8
septembre 2001 : section 7, le Mésolithique
C 7.1, landscape-use during the Final-Palaeolithic and Mesolithic in
NW-Europe: the formation of extensive sites and site-complexes,

C 7.2 late foragers and early farmers of the Lepenski Vir-Schela
Cladovei culture in the Iron Gates Gorges, a metamorphosis of
technologies or acculturations,

C 7.3, intrusive farmers or indigenous foragers: the new debate about
the ethnolinguistic origins of Europe

International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences. -

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2004 Bénédicte Souffi,
Mésolithique en Haute-Normandie (France) : l'exemple du site
d'Acquigny "l'Onglais" (Eure) et sa contribution à l'étude des
gisements mésolithiques de plein air

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2004 Frédéric Surmely, Le site mésolithique
des Baraquettes (Velzig, Cantal) et le peuplement de la moyenne
montagne cantalienne des origines à la fin du Mésolithique

Paris : Société Préhistorique Française, 2003 Actes du Symposium
International Préhistoire des Pratiques Mortuaires:
Paléolithique - Mésolithique - Néolithique
12 - 16 septembre 1999

Elzbieta Derwich. - Liège : Univ. de Liège, Service de Préhistoire,
2003

MESO '97 :
actes de la Table Ronde "Epipaléolithique et Mésolithique",
Lausanne, 21 - 23 novembre 1997

Pierre Crotti. - Lausanne : Cahiers d'Archéologie Romande, 2000
Thierry Ducrocq, Le Mésolithique du bassin de la Somme :
insertion dans un cadre morpho-stratigraphique, environnemental
et chronoculturel - 1999

Eva David, L'industrie en matières dures animales du
mésolithique ancien et moyen en Europe du Nord : contribution de
l'analyse technologique à la définition du Maglemosien

André Thévenin., L' Europe des derniers chasseurs :
Épipaléolithique et Mésolithique ; [actes du 5. Colloque
International UISSP, Commission XII, Grenoble, 18 - 23 septembre
1995]

Paris : Éd. du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 1999

André Thévenin, Épipaléolithique et Mésolithique entre Seine et Rhin
: table ronde d'Ancerville 1989

Paris : Les Belles-Lettres, 1995 Clive Bonsall, The Mesolithic
in Europe : papers presented at the third international
symposium, Edinburgh 1985, Repr. - Edinburgh : Donald, 1990

Alain Tuffreau, Paléolithique et mésolithique du Nord de la
France : nouvelles recherches/ - Villeneuve d'Ascq : Centre
d'Études et de Recherches Préhistoriques, Univ. des Sciences et
Techniques de Lille Flandres Artois,

Michel Barbaza, Cultures et société au paléolithique terminal,
au mésolithique et au début du néolithique ancien dans le
sud-ouest de l'Europe / - 1989

Ah, and I thought I was done!

I have no problem using the indigeonous words, google is very
happy to declare when it has a better spelling. Problem is that
the indigeonous words didn't work. Why don't you encourage your
french counterparts to publish their mesolithic site studies
and tell em some american fools are interested in their
archeobotanical analyses at same said sites. Tell them they can
drive the americans nuts if the publish in a french journal.
I'm game.

Well, they have published. If you did not find any of it, maybe
it has something to do with spelling. A search on Generic
studies gives you more than 44 million hits,

You mean mésolithique, well lets give it a try and see.
régime mésolithique - 11,300
nourriture mésolithique - 1,880
régime nourriture mésolithique francais - 204

A scan of topics I am not finding anything real useful.

but it wouldn't
show much on genetics.

The Library of Congress gives 10000 hits on mesolithic France
http://tinyurl.com/o68x5

I don't know about timed out sessions but I got
12.

Brief Description: Vallois, H. V. (Henri Victor), b. 1889.
Les me´solithiques de France : e´tude anthropologique / par H. V.
Vallois et S. de Fe´lice.
Paris ; New York : Masson, 1977.
vi, 194 p., v leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
ISBN: 2225449686 :

. . . . .

Brief Description: Philibert, Sylvie.
Les derniers "Sauvages" : territoires e´conomiques et syste`mes
techno-fonctionnels me´solithiques / Sylvie Philibert.
Oxford, England : Archaeopress, 2002.
193 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
ISBN: 1841713147

One does talk about diet, cannibalism.
Most are about lithics.

There should be one or two among that, that really deal with
mesolithic France.

Possibly, I have 0 access to hard back titles.

But on the other hand I have found it useful if there
is publications to try searching on the full title, often a online
publication appears, :^) . The way to get good stuff free
on the internet is to leverage what you have for what you need
so for instance if you have a title, the words in the title
tend to propogate in human thinking and publication, but at the same
time containing it away from the rif-raff of encylopedic
publications.

Examples:
[Search Terms] Mésolithique en Haute-Normandie

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?
hl=en&u=http://www.prehistoire.org/visiteurs/fr/bulletin/resumes%
25202003%25204.html%23meso%2520moyen&prev=/search%3Fq%3DLe%2BM%25C3%
25A9solithique%2Ben%2BHaute-Normandie%2B(France)%2B:%26hl%3Den%26lr%
3D%26rls%3DGGLG,GGLG:2006-28,GGLG:en
[This page is translated into english has more about neolithic, but
some interesting stuff]

"
Absolute dating of the first Neolithic era of the Paris basin:
complement and second reading of data RRBP and VSG - p. 671-689
Jerome DUBOULOZ

Eighty-nine 14C measurements, former to 5500 BP and ascribable to the
RRBP or the VSG, are subjected to an overall second reading after
calibration, weighting by the precision and distribution in
cumulative diagrams. Initially, one observes one longer duration of
the VSG, of which at least the half would proceed after the end of
the RRBP. However an inconsistency of dates RRBP, due mainly to
measurements of Cuiry-lès-Chaudardes, encourages with the critical
analysis of measurements themselves. The 56 most reliable dates
confirm the starting of the VSG during the final RRBP and its
extension during nearly two centuries after this last. 14C
measurements available today thus suggest that the VSG succeeds the
RRBP overall and, singularly, at the end of the RRBP. They suggest
also a correspondence tightened between the RRBP and Hinkelstein on
the one hand, the VSG and Grossgartach on the other hand.

Eighty-nine C14 measurements, earlier than 5500 BP and attributable
to the Paris Basin Late Bandkeramik (RRBP) gold the Villeneuve-Saint-
Germain group (VSG), are reviewed using calibration, weighting for
precision and cumulative distribution diagrams. Initially, all the
measurements are taken into consideration: one observe has to skirt
duration for the VSG (70% of probabilities between 4950 and 4650 BC),
At least half of which seems to cuts developed after the end of the
RRBP (over 70% of probabilities between 5000 and 4800 BC). Yet the
inconsistency of RRBP dates, largely due to measurements from Cuiry-
lès-Chaudardes, necessitates further critical analysis of the
measurements themselves. After examining coherence of the contexts,
the series of measurements and the samples themselves, 33 dates were
set aside: the result of this reasoned selection for the RRBP is that
only its end, the final RRBP, is dated by C14. Applicable Examination
of the 56 most dates (21 RRBP, 35 VSG) shows that 90% of the
probabilities of dating for the final RRBP and the VSG respectively
made into the chronological spans 5000-4800 BC and 4950-4650 BC.
Critical analysis of the dated thus confirms the start of VSG during
final RRBP and its continuation afterwards for *** two centuries.
Lastly, has further study is proposed. Using the B method of the
?Calib 4-3? programs (redistribution of probabilities), it is in fact
possible to x-ray one the most probable dating segments. Cumulative
New diagrams are produced which concentrate almost 90% of
measurements for the end of the RRBP into the 100 year span 5000-4900
and the same proportion of VSG measurements into the 250 year span
4950-4700. With has peak of distribution of probabilities At 4950-
4900 for the end of the RRBP and 4850-4800 for the VSG, this new
analysis confirms the time lag between thesis two Paris Basin farming
entities suggested by the previous analyses. The currently available
C14 measurements therefore suggest, have C the other archaeological
studies, that the VSG broadly follows the RRBP and, particularly, the
end of the RRBP. They also suggest closed correspondence firstly
between RRBP and Hinkelstein and secondly between VSG and
Grossgartach.
"

http://www.jp.culture.fr/culture/actualites/rapports/archeo-
preventive2006/tome2-normandiehaute.pdf#search=%22Le%20M%C3%
A9solithique%20en%20Haute-Normandie%20(France)%20%3A%22

http://translate.google.com/translate?
sourceid=navclient&hl=en&u=http%3a%2f%2f72%2e14%2e207%2e104%2fsearch%
3fq%3dcache%3adx8%5fOhFf9cgJ%3awww%2ejp%2eculture%2efr%2fculture%
2factualites%2frapports%2farcheo%2dpreventive2006%2ftome2%
2dnormandiehaute%2epdf%2bLe%2bM%25C3%25A9solithique%2ben%2bHaute%
2dNormandie%2b%28France%29%2b%3a%26hl%3den%26gl%3dus%26ct%3dclnk%
26cd%3d8
[Tranlated HTML]

Example:
[Search term] Le site mésolithique des Baraquettes


http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/reviews/04_03_pettitt.htm

"
Some limitations of the Rocher de la Caille site are evident. The
pollution of the pollen assemblages by Holocene pollen precludes a
reliable reconstruction of the palaeoenvironment at the time of
habitation. Faunal preservation was very poor, with the total
assemblage amounting only to around 50 teeth, all of horse bar one of
chamois[Caprinae], and of a number of small, burnt fragments that are
unidentifiable to species. The single 14C date for the site (Ly-5645:
12210 ± 480) was therefore measured on carbonised sediment taken from
a hearth.
"

So they were eating horse meat and goat-ish like animal.

http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/43130//Location/DBBC
" lying on the left bank of the Loire, is one of many prehistoric
sites in Saut-du-Perron and was the subject of a rescue excavation
from 1979 to 1983 prior to the construction of a dam."

So that was useful.

Using search term "Le Mésolithique du bassin de la Somme :
insertion dans un cadre morpho-stratigraphique,"

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?
hl=en&u=http://www.prehistoire.org/visiteurs/fr/bulletin/resumes%
25202002%25204.html%23Vercors&prev=/search%3Fq%3DLe%2BM%25C3%
25A9solithique%2Bdu%2Bbassin%2Bde%2Bla%2BSomme%2B:%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%
26rls%3DGGLG,GGLG:2006-28,GGLG:en
[Some interesting stuff, need to degrease your LKB?]

http://translate.google.com/translate?
hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.mmsh.univ-
aix.fr/esep/Publications/sommaires/BINTZ.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnu
m=8&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DLe%2BM%25C3%25A9solithique%2Bdu%
2Bbassin%2Bde%2Bla%2BSomme%2B:%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%
3DGGLG,GGLG:2006-28,GGLG:en
An new list of search terms. [To bad they don't give abstracts]


[Search Term]L'industrie en matières dures animales du
mésolithique

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.mae.u-
paris10.fr/prehistoire/persopre.php%3FID%3D75%
3D&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DL%
2527industrie%2Ben%2Bmati%25C3%25A8res%2Bdures%2Banimales%2Bdu%2Bm%
25C3%25A9solithique%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DGGLG,GGLG:2006-
28,GGLG:en

No direct information is given but we can assume that northern
european mesolithic involved some hunting of deer.

[Search Term] Épipaléolithique et Mésolithique entre Seine et Rhin

"
Climate change and evolving human diversity in Europe during the last
glacial: One contribution of 14 to a Discussion Meeting Issue 'The
evolutionary legacy of the Ice Ages'
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological
Sciences 359(1442): Pages: 243 - 254
"

http://www.mesolithikum.de/files/ALLMESOD.DOC

IOW it's not so much an issue of spelling but getting a good set
of search terms that are appropriately used within the scientific
literature. In this instance one is not so lucky to get actual
publications, but in narrowing down abstracts and titles one can get
an overview of the major aspects.
There's alot more that can be done with the list(s) but I am short
of time right now. I will work on it this afternoon.








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