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Pollard, Tony
[Author];
Morrison, Alex
[Author]
;
Armit, Ian
[Contributor];
Atkinson, John
[Contributor];
Banks, Iain
[Contributor];
Bonsall, Clive
[Contributor];
Buckland, Paul
[Contributor];
Edwards, Kevin
[Contributor];
Finlay, Nyree
[Contributor];
Finlayson, Bill
[Contributor];
Jones, Andrew
[Contributor];
Lake, Mark
[Contributor];
Mayewski, Paul
[Contributor];
Meeker, Loren
[Contributor];
Mithen, Steven
[Contributor];
Moore, Jenny
[Contributor];
Morrison, Alex
[Contributor];
O'Brien, Suzanne
[Contributor];
Pollard, Tony
[Contributor];
Saville, Alan
[Contributor];
Simpson, Biddy
[Contributor];
Spikins, Penny
[Contributor];
Taylor, Kevin
[Contributor];
Tipping, Richard
[Contributor];
Woodman, Peter
[Contributor]
The Early Prehistory of Scotland
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- Media type: E-Book
- Title: The Early Prehistory of Scotland
- Contributor: Pollard, Tony [VerfasserIn]; Armit, Ian [MitwirkendeR]; Atkinson, John [MitwirkendeR]; Banks, Iain [MitwirkendeR]; Bonsall, Clive [MitwirkendeR]; Buckland, Paul [MitwirkendeR]; Edwards, Kevin [MitwirkendeR]; Finlay, Nyree [MitwirkendeR]; Finlayson, Bill [MitwirkendeR]; Jones, Andrew [MitwirkendeR]; Lake, Mark [MitwirkendeR]; Mayewski, Paul [MitwirkendeR]; Meeker, Loren [MitwirkendeR]; Mithen, Steven [MitwirkendeR]; Moore, Jenny [MitwirkendeR]; Morrison, Alex [VerfasserIn]; Morrison, Alex [MitwirkendeR]; O'Brien, Suzanne [MitwirkendeR]; Pollard, Tony [MitwirkendeR]; Saville, Alan [MitwirkendeR]; Simpson, Biddy [MitwirkendeR]; Spikins, Penny [MitwirkendeR]; Taylor, Kevin [MitwirkendeR]; Tipping, Richard [MitwirkendeR]; Woodman, Peter [MitwirkendeR]
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imprint:
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
[Online-Ausgabe] - Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (300 p)
- Language: English
- DOI: 10.1515/9781474471725
- ISBN: 9781474471725
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- Keywords: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General
- Type of reproduction: [Online-Ausgabe]
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Footnote:
In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
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Description:
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
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 - Access State: Restricted Access | Information to licenced electronic resources of the SLUB