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2007
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Howburn, Near Biggar, South Lanarkshire: Preliminary Notice of a Scottish Inland Early Holocene Lithic Assemblage
This paper draws preliminary attention to the recent discovery of evidence for early Holocene human presence at Howburn, near Biggar, in the interior of southern Scotland. Implement types invite comparison with so-called Star Carr type Early Mesolithic assemblages of the 10th millennium BP, or possibly with even earlier technological traditions.Saville, Alan ; Ballin, Torben Bjarke ; Ward, T
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2007
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Cowie, Trevor ; Heald, Andrew ; Hunter, Fraser ; Saville, Alan
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2008
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Characterizing the diet of individuals at the Neolithic chambered tomb of Hazleton North, Gloucestershire, England, using stable isotopic analysis
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope compositions were measured on human and faunal bones, sampled from the Neolithic chambered tomb of Hazleton North, Gloucestershire, UK. The values were used to characterize the diet of the burial community as a whole. Humans were higher in δ15N by 4.5–5.0‰ relative to animal δ15N,...Hedges, Robert ; Saville, Alan ; O'Connell, Tamsin
bone, carbon, nitrogen, Neolithic, stable isotope, and Paleodiet
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2010
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Anatomizing an archaeological project - Hazleton revisited. Presidential address delivered at Gambier Parry Hall, Highnam, 27 March 2010
This presidential address revisits the author’s archaeological excavation of a Neolithic long cairn at the Cotswold village of Hazleton in 1979–1982. After a summary of the findings of the excavation a personal account is given of the reasons for the project, how it developed and was achieved, its post-excavation aftermath,...Saville, Alan
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2009
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2010
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Howburn farm: excavating Scotland's first people
At Howburn Farm in South Lanarkshire, a scattering of flints, discovered by the Biggar Archaeology Group, turned out to be evidence of the earliest human habitation in Scotland.Ward, T ; Saville, Alan
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2011
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2010
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An upper paleolithic flint and chert assemblage from Howburn farm, South Lanarkshire, Scotland: first results
This paper describes the discovery of the first open-air Upper Palaeolithic site to be found in Scotland, at Howburn, near Biggar in South Lanarkshire. An account is given of the composition and distribution of the lithic assemblage, which is discussed in terms of its British and north-west European context. Provisional...Ballin, Torben Bjarke ; Saville, Alan ; Tipping, R ; Ward, T