Scotland: Environment and Archaeology, 8000 BC - AD 1000Kevin J. Edwards, Ian B. M. Ralston In this pioneering and challenging study, seventeen experts drawn from a range of disciplines seek to integrate environmental and archaeological evidence, to consider how the changing physical geography and the sequence of cultural impacts have shaped the distinctive succession of landscapes in this fascinating and complex country. From the downwasting of ice and the first appearance of hunter-gatherers to the Viking incursions at the end of the dark ages, the consequences of this vital interaction over more than nine thousand years are described, illustrated and interpreted using examples drawn from across the environmental history and archaeological record of Scotland. |
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Climate Change | 11 |
Soils and Their Evolution | 45 |
Vegetation Change | 63 |
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Aberdeenshire agriculture Alcock animal Antiquaries of Scotland Antonine Wall archaeological areas artefacts assemblages associated Atlantic Atlantic roundhouses bone Britain British broch Bronze Age brown forest Buckquoy burial buried soils cal BC century clearance climate change coastal Copyright cropmarks cultivation deposits early Holocene East Lothian economy Edwards enclosures environment environmental erosion evidence excavation exploitation extent farming fauna Fife Figure gleys Hebrides Highlands hillforts Historic Scotland historical Holocene human impact indicate Iron Age Knap of Howar land landscape late Lateglacial lowland Mellars Mesolithic midden millennium BC monuments Neolithic Norse North northern Obanian occupation Orkney Oronsay Outer Hebrides pattern peat period Perthshire phase Pictish Plate podzols pollen diagrams Postglacial prehistoric present radiocarbon dates RCAHMS recent record red deer remains Ritchie Roman Rosinish Scottish sediment settlement Shetland Skara Brae Society of Antiquaries southern species stone structures suggested timber Uist upland Valley vegetation Western Isles Whittington Wickham-Jones woodland