1. Un-Primitive Mesolithic Analogy

2. Aims and objectives Discussion of Star Carr Discussion of Analogy My own application of analogy New directions

3. Star Carr

4. Star Carr Environment c9.5k BP Extinct Lake Colonization of plants Colonization by trees Animal populations

5. Star Carr Assemblages

6. Star Carr Structures 1950 brushwood platform 1985 timber platform

7. Star Carr Research Questions Chronology Duration of occupation Mobility/ Seasonality Settlement Social and ideological

8. Analogy Pollen zones Typological Functional Anthropology Hunter Gatherers

9. Clark’s Cultural Evolution

10. Social Evolution

11. Cultural Analogies at Star Carr Hunting peoples of Nth America Eskimos/caribou Eskimos Tasmanians Californian Indians Chukchee/Siberia Aboriginal Australians Dinka/ Sudan Ancient Egyptians Algonkians/Labrador Jomon/Japan Karok,Yurok Oregon Marsh Arabs/Iraq Aymara/Peru Wik Monkon/Cape York Northern Paiutes/Oregon British peasants The poor of Denmark

12. Criticisms Space. How can people be alike over thousands of miles? Time. How can people be similar over many millennia? Ethnoarchaeology Ethics. Primitive = Primitive as the world was colonized so was the past.

14. Imagining the Environment

15. Imagining the environment II

17. Star Crack

19. Star Crack Platform

20. Star Crack Pathway

21. Star Crack Home

22. Star Crack Compound

23. Expanding the Mesolithic Paradigm Two-way street the past and the present must inform each other Are we really different from hunters and gatherers? Is the individual constructed by society? What does it mean to exist out of society? Can the mind as well as the body be unsettled? The Mesolithic must become relevant

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