Star Carr (1 gen 8770 anni a. C. – 1 gen 8460 anni a. C.)

Descrizione:

Star Carr, UK (The Human Past, 392); very well-preserved temporary settlement.

Located: Northeast England, extinct lake shore

What: Early Mesolithic Hunter-gatherer campsite

Importance: Waterlogged conditions preserved a wide range of organic materials

Time: 1st occupation 8770 BC (> +- 80 yr, periodically) → 100 yr abandoned
2nd occupation 120 yr of periodically burning until c.8460 BC (larger scale)

Finds:
Wooden platform;
Flint tools;
Microliths
fitted in wooden shafts for knifes or hunting; Arrows;
200 Barbed points, Used for hunting and fishing (of red deer antler and bone);
Mattock heads
made of elk antler
perforated to fit an wooden haft;
Wooden paddle blade, Canoe;
21 frontlets of red deer skulls with antler still attached:
Traces of intentional working
thinned, perforated, could be worn as headdress→ used in hunting magic?

Diet: Red deer; roe deer; elk; pig; aurochs; - as well as: stork and crane.

Interesting:
Periodically burned

Uniqueness:
Exceptional preservation of organic remains
offering insight into Mesolithic lifeways,
demonstrate full significance of settlements

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