This is a book about Mesolithic strategies in the Swedish province of Ostergotland. The publication is based on the material discovered in connection with recent contract archaeology in Ostergotland. In the last fifteen years our knowledge of the period has grown enormously: this book is an attmept to present the current state of research. CONTENTS: The Mesolithic in Ostergotland - An introduction (Tom Carlsson, Goran Gruber and Fredrik Molin); From blank spot to focal point: An eastern Swedish site from a south Scandinavian perspective (Lars Larsson); Home, sweet home: The spatial story of Mesolithic settlement organisation in Ostergotland (Tom Carlsson); Leister fishing in Motala Strom during the Atlantic period: A typological study based on the finds from the Motala site, Ostergotland (Thomas Bergstran); From the hunter's point of view: Animal bones from the Motala site (Joakim Aberg); Actions in quartz: Some reflections on shiny white stones in eastern central Sweden (Roger Wikell); The flint from the settlement site in Motala: A study of raw material, technology, and function (Nicklas Eriksson); A more human society: Aspects of Mesolithic research (Magnus Rolof); Morby - the oldest settlement site in Ostergotland (Anders Kaliff); Between ancient Vattern and the Ancylus Lake: Early Mesolithic settlement in the Motala district in western Ostergotland (Fredrik Molin); Many Mesolithic sites along the shores: Some results from surveys in Kolmarden and Vikbolandet, Ostergotland in eastern central Sweden (Roger Wikell); Newly discovered sites on the shores of the Littorina Sea (Alf Ericsson and Roger Wikell).