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Rising waters and processes of diversification and unification in material culture: the flooding of Doggerland and its effect on north‐west European prehistoric populations between ca. 13 000 and 1500 cal BC
Author(s) -
Ballin Torben Bjarke
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of quaternary science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.142
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1099-1417
pISSN - 0267-8179
DOI - 10.1002/jqs.2834
Subject(s) - diversification (marketing strategy) , merge (version control) , unification , economic geography , geography , prehistory , glacial period , archaeology , geology , paleontology , business , marketing , computer science , information retrieval , programming language
The present paper discusses how post‐glacial sea level rises may have led to material cultural diversification and ‘atomization’ of geographically extensive cultures or social territories. The resulting smaller social territories, with their associated material cultures, subsequently began to merge, possibly due to the development of better means of transport. Where the North Sea, at the beginning of this process of material diversification, represented a growing barrier to contacts, it later became a means of communication. In this paper, dates for material cultures follow those of Vang Petersen ([Vang Petersen P., 1993]).