Editorial
Abstract
DITORIALDITORIAL E John Chapman General Editor University of Durham In this last issue for the year 2000, the Journal focuses on three big issues in European archaeology mobility, pioneers and memory. Since three aspects of memory are discussed in Peter Biehl and Alexander Gramsch's Book marks, I merely allude to them here. The issues of mobility and pioneers are touched upon in the articles which also divide thematically into two pairs: two articles which bracket the beginning and the end of the Mesolithic period in south east Europe and two papers on scientic methods of sourcing. Miracle, Galanidou and Forenbaher seek to demonstrate the principal ways in which the karstic area of north east Istria was re-colonized in the early Holocene. The Pupicina Project has now investigated four cave sites: Sebrn abri is the focus of this article. Through detailed analysis of a small excavated sample, the authors dene two stages in colonization strategies a 'look-see' phase lasting no more than two centuries, during which people were assessing the place for its potential in regional settlement, and a more intensive phase, in which red deer exploitation was selected as the principal site function. The ne-grained chronology of the