Re: The Neolithic/Mesolithic Boundary(4) Climatic Instability Gives way to Stability

In sci.archaeology message news:44ff17ff$0$84558$dbd49001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
by "Peter Alaca" <P.Alaca@xxxxxx> . . . :

prd wrote: news:PRsLg.60844$5i3.34601@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The period between 9640 BC and the neolithic is roughly 4000
years and so it covers a relatively long period of time, in much
of europe, nothing is happening in the begining of the period.

1. Glacier remain over the NW and N expanses.

2. Production is relatively low, the animals that exist tended
to migrate over long distances and are widely dispersed.

Widely dispersed? Never heard of animals
(Reindeer, Deer) living in herds, migrating
the same routes from summer grazing grounds
to winter grazing grounds and back?

This means that they are not concentrated in one single
site suitable for year round hunting.

3. In terms of edible grasses, europe is not a prime spot

I am sure the animals had a completely
different opinion about that.

What do reindeer feed on in alaska and northern siberia?

4. And to make matters worse the things that tend to grow
first are the massive light blocking pinus species that really
screw up the soil for everything else.

Still the same bull***. No one hold it against you
when you know not much outside your own field,
but you can be blamed for ignoring correct information
provided to you more than once in more than one form.
I repeat part of one of my earlier posts

Oleg Polunin & Martin Walters
A guide to the vegetation of Britain and Europe
Oxford University Press 1985
Parts of chapter 4:
Recent history of the development of vegetation in Europe

"During the pre-Boreal period (10000 - 95000 bp),

That is a very very short period to time -85000 years.
I can be pedantic also.

pollen analysis shows a rapid increase of
Juniper followed by Birch and later an influx of
Pine from the warmer south. Light woods
developed in the northern parts of Europe.

Yes but the people who would hunt them are also
'influx ......from the warmer south'

Pollen analysis near Eifle and in Siwtzerland show
an increase starting beofre the younger dryas and an increase
at the end of the holocene

Figure 4 page 377, street et al. only in Hamelesee did
pinus pollen lag the holocene by "-85000" years.

Borealization from the refuge areas begins before the younger
dryas and continues northward rapidly after it ends

In the Boreal period (95000 - 75000 bp) warmer-

You mean close to the onset of the last ice age, 11300 bp.
I guess the neandertals has a problem with those oaks
didn't they. I need some more zeros, that way you
would look way more, a gazillion times more important.

Bonuses:
Jonathan Adams
"Europe during the last 150,000 years"
http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/nercEUROPE.html

From: Andre Leroi Gourhan
"The Hunters of Prehistory", New York 1989
http://tinyurl.com/gmol8

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