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Chronology and Evolution within the Mesolithic of North-West Europe: Proceedings of an International Meeting, Brussels, May 30th-June 1st 2007
Editor: Philippe Crombé, Mark Van Strydonck, Joris Sergant, Mathieu Boudin and Machteld Bats
Date Of Publication: Dec 2009
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-1421-8
Isbn: 1-4438-1421-0
Since its development in 1949, radiocarbon dating has increasingly been used in prehistoric research in order to get a better grip on the chronology of sites, cultures and environmental changes. Refinement of the dating, sampling and calibration methods has continuously created new and challenging perspectives for absolute dating. In these proceedings the focus lies on the contribution of carbon-14 dates in current Mesolithic research in North-West Europe. Altogether 40 papers dealing with radiocarbon dates from 15 different countries are presented. Major themes are the typo-technological evolution of lithic and bone industries, changes in settlement patterns, burial practices, demography and subsistence, human impact on the Mesolithic environment and the neolithisation process. Some papers also deal with more methodological aspects of carbon-14 dating (e.g. calculation of various reservoir effects, the use of cumulative calibrated probability distributions), and related techniques (e.g. stable isotope analysis for palaeodiet reconstruction).
Philippe Crombé, Joris Sergant and Machteld Bats belong to the Archaeology department of Ghent University. They have all been involved for many years in Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic research, including field-work (survey and large-scale salvage excavations), and laboratory work (techno-typological analysis, GIS, spatial analysis, etc), mainly in the sandy lowlands and wetlands of NW Belgium, but occasionally also in the Netherlands.
Mark Van Strydonck and Mathieu Boudin belong to the radiocarbon laboratory of the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage in Brussels. Radiocarbon dating for archaeology and the history of the arts is the main objective of this laboratory, founded in the 1960s. One of the main fields of research in this laboratory is the study of the relationship between the sample and the event (sample selection, integrity and quality on the one hand, event analysis on the other hand). There exists a long established and close collaboration between the two institutes, which has resulted in joint research projects on dating of Mesolithic pottery food-crusts, antler mattocks, and cremated bones.
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From Kerouac Ascending: Memorabilia of the Decade of On the Road
“Katherine Burkman, best known for her contributions to Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, and modern drama studies in general, now provides an essential reference for students of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and the beats through this memoir by Elbert Lenrow. A beloved teacher at the New School for Social Research, Lenrow met and taught Jack Kerouac in the late forties, befriending him and Allen Ginsberg as well. The book offers unprecedented insight into the beats in general and Kerouac’s development as a writer, thinker, and cultural force in American literature. Howard Cunnell, who introduces the book, notes that through his friendship with Kerouac, ‘Lenrow got to ride in what would become the most famous car in modern American literature.’ And thanks to this book, now readers of Kerouac Ascending do, too.”
—Ann C. Hall, Professor, Ohio Dominican University; President, Harold Pinter Society
“The larger significance of the sustained and sustaining friendship between Elbert Lenrow and Kerouac and Ginsberg in this book is that it exhibits Jack and Allen in ways that are seldom, if ever, represented in accounts of their lives. As a bonus, from this fine, small book, the reader can acquire an enriched and enhanced understanding of the multifarious political, literary, and artistic relationships of virtually all the principal players in the cultural scene in the mid- to late 20th century.”
—James L. Battersby, Professor Emeritus of English, Ohio State University
“Always their affectionate elder, Lenrow presents Kerouac and Ginsberg mostly in their own words, making no broad claim or judgments beyond the recognition that both writers spoke for their time as Walt Whitman did for his and that they have become iconic figures for a literary movement. It is a modest but important work presenting original materials saved by a gentle, sensitive, and literate man.”
—Mark S. Auburn, Professor Emeritus of English, former Senior Vice President and Provost at the University of Akron
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