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The early prehistory of Scotland /
This book represents the first overview of current research into the early prehistory of northern Britain, and most particularly Scotland, since the publication of Lacaille's seminal Stone Age in Scotland in 1954. Many of the contributions included are papers presented at a conference marking t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2010]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 'The northward march of Palaeolithic man in Britain' : an appreciation of Armand Donald Lacaille / Alex Morrison
- Part 1. The environmental background ; A Mesolithic of the western and northern isles of Scotland? Evidence from pollen and charcoal / Kevin J. Edwards
- Microscopic charcoal records, inferred human activity and climate change in the Mesolithic of northernmost Scotland / Richard Tipping
- Damp squib : how to fire a major deciduous forest in an inclement climate / Jenny Moore
- Climate change events as seen in the Greenland ice core (GISP2) : implications for the Mesolithic of Scotland / Paul A. Mayewski, Paul C. Buckland, Kevin J. Edwards, Loren D. Meeker, and Suzanne O'Brien
- Part 2. Regional studies ; Rivers, boundaries and change : a hypothesis of changing settlement patterns in the Mesolithic of northern England / Penny Spikins
- The contribution of Tom Affleck to the study of the Mesolithic of southwest Scotland / Kevin J. Edwards
- The southern Hebrides Mesolithic project : reconstructing Mesolithic settlement in western Scotland / Steven Mithen and Mark Lake
- Archaeology on the edge : learning to fend for ourselves / Peter C. Woodman
- Part 3. Marine adaptations ; It is the technical side of the work which is my stumbling block : a shell midden site on Risga reconsidered / Tony Pollard, John Atkinson, and Iain Banks
- The 'Obanian problem': coastal adaptation in the Mesolithic of western Scotland / Clive Bonsall
- Time and tide : coastal environments, cosmology and ritual practice in early prehistoric Scotland / Tony Pollard
- Part 4. Material culture ; Lacaille, microliths and the Mesolithic of Orkney / Alan Saville
- The rough and the smooth : axe polishers of the Middle Neolithic / Kevin J. Taylor
- Self and social identity : an analysis of the Mesolithic body adornment from the Scottish western isles / Biddy Simpson
- Mesolithic chipped stone assemblages : descriptive and analytical procedures used by the southern Hebrides Mesolithic project / Bill Finlayson, Nyree Finlay, and Steven Mithen
- Part 5. Social change ; The transition to agriculture 1 : introduction / Ian Armit and Bill Finlayson
- The transition to agriculture 2 : the basis for change / Bill Finlayson
- The transition to agriculture 3 : Scotland / Ian Armit
- Food for thought : material culture and the transformation in food use from the Mesolithic to Neolithic / Andrew Jones.