The Mesolithic communities of northwest Europe have generally been considered inherently mobile, and all the material evidence associated with them has been interpreted accordingly. This has resulted in entrenched, theoretically polemical and largely hypothetical mobility models, focusing on seasonal rounds and extraction activities. However, recent reanalyses of the ethnographic sources, and discoveries of both substantial and ephemeral Mesolithic structures, as well as new data from recent innovative lithic and scientific analyses (including DNA, isotope research on human remains, and geochemical analyses of lithic artefacts), have forced us to rethink the rather static models of Mesolithic mobility strategies. This paper, examining Mesolithic hunter-gatherer mobility and settlement models from Britain and Ireland, is part of that reassessment. In particular, it assesses the impact of the multiple lines of consilience on our understanding of Mesolithic habitation of landscapes. These include the archaeological evidence and the efficacy of recent theoretical and methodological approaches that have been employed to interpret it.

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在英国和爱尔兰解释中石器时代流动性和定居的方法

西北欧的中石器时代的社区通常被认为具有固有的流动性，因此与之相关的所有物质证据也得到了相应的解释。这导致了根深蒂固的，理论上是两极的和主要是假设性的流动性模型，重点是季节性轮次和开采活动。然而，最近对人种学来源的重新分析，以及实质和短暂的中石器时代结构的发现，以及来自最新创新的石器和科学分析（包括DNA，人类遗体的同位素研究以及石器物的地球化学分析）的新数据，都有迫使我们重新思考中石器流动性策略的静态模型。本文研究了来自英国和爱尔兰的中石器时代的猎人-采伐者流动性和安置模型，这是该重新评估的一部分。特别是，它评估了多条一致性路线对我们对中石器时代景观的理解的影响。其中包括考古证据以及最近用来解释它的理论和方法论的功效。