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## THE HARVARD ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION IN IRELAND THE study of the material from sixteen sites excavated by this expedition between 19392 and 1936 has now been brought to a point where a brief summary is possible.' The object of the Expedition was to study as far as could be done by excavations the successive cultures of Ireland from the first inhabitants down to the Anglo-Norman invasion in the twelfth century. Although nearly every phase of culture was sampled, it appeared that the best fields for fuller excavation were the Mesolithic and Christian periods. THE MESOLITHIC PERIOD Of the Palaeolithic Period, which possibly lasted for a million years in Europe, no positive trace has ever been found in Ireland. But with the final disappearance of the last ice-sheets in Ireland and Great Britain the climate became warmer. Plants and animals accustomed to a cooler climate gradually moved northward. Into this area, now rendered suitable for human habitation, moved the Stone Age hunters of southern and central Britain. These people were naturally trying to remain in the conditions to which their economy was adapted, and this involved following the animals which they hunted. Later on, a

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Author

Hugh O'Neill Hencken

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

1941

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)