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The Early Prehistory of Scotland / Tony Pollard, Alex Morrison.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748606771
  • 9781474471725
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)