TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pollard,Tony
AU  - Armit,Ian
AU  - Atkinson,John
AU  - Banks,Iain
AU  - Bonsall,Clive
AU  - Buckland,Paul
AU  - Edwards,Kevin
AU  - Finlay,Nyree
AU  - Finlayson,Bill
AU  - Jones,Andrew
AU  - Lake,Mark
AU  - Mayewski,Paul
AU  - Meeker,Loren
AU  - Mithen,Steven
AU  - Moore,Jenny
AU  - Morrison,Alex
AU  - O'Brien,Suzanne
AU  - Pollard,Tony
AU  - Saville,Alan
AU  - Simpson,Biddy
AU  - Spikins,Penny
AU  - Taylor,Kevin
AU  - Tipping,Richard
AU  - Woodman,Peter
TI  - The Early Prehistory of Scotland
SN  - 9780748606771
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Scottish Studies
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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 environmental background
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474471725
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474471725
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474471725/original
ER  -