The Early Prehistory of Scotland / / Tony Pollard, Alex Morrison.
Bringing together the latest work on the Mesolithic in Scotland and Northern England, this is a fundamental re-assessment of early prehistory from the key researchers in the area. Based firmly on archaeological evidence from recent excavations, this important book also includes work on the environme...
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©1996 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- 1. The Northward March of Palaeolithic Man in Britain': An Appreciation of Armand Donald Lacaille
- PART 1: THE ENVIRONMENTAL BACKGROUND
- 2. A Mesolithic of the Western and Northern Isles of Scotland? Evidence from Pollen and Charcoal
- 3. Microscopic Charcoal Records, Inferred Human Activity and Climate Change in the Mesolithic of Northernmost Scotland
- 4. Damp Squib: How to Fire a Major Deciduous Forest in an Inclement Climate
- 5. Climate Change Events as Seen in the Greenland Ice Core (GISP2): Implications for the Mesolithic of Scotland
- PART 2: REGIONAL STUDIES
- 6. Rivers, Boundaries and Change: A Hypothesis of Changing Settlement Patterns in the Mesolithic of Northern England
- 7. The Contribution of Tom Affleck to the Study of the Mesolithic of Southwest Scotland
- 8. The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic Project: Reconstructing Mesolithic Settlement in Western Scotland
- 9. Archaeology on the Edge: Learning to Fend for Ourselves
- PART 3: MARINE ADAPTATIONS
- 10. It Is the Technical Side of the Work which is My Stumbling Block: A Shell Midden Site on Risga Reconsidered
- 11. The 'Obanian Problem': Coastal Adaptation in the Mesolithic of Western Scotland
- 12. Time and Tide: Coastal Environments, Cosmology and Ritual Practice in Early Prehistoric Scotland
- PART 4: MATERIAL CULTURE
- 13. Lacaille, Microliths and the Mesolithic of Orkney
- 14. The Rough and the Smooth: Axe Polishers of the Middle Neolithic
- 15. Self and Social Identity: An Analysis of the Mesolithic body Adornment from the Scottish Western Isles
- 16. Mesolithic Chipped Stone Assemblages: Descriptive and Analytical Procedures Used by the Southern Hebrides Mesolithic Project
- PART 5: SOCIAL CHANGE
- 17. The Transition to Agriculture 1: Introduction
- The Transition to Agriculture 2: The Basis for Change
- The Transition to Agriculture 3: Scotland
- 18. Food for Thought: Material Culture and the Transformation in Food Use from the Mesolithic to Neolithic