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Iron
Sections: 10.7.1 Introduction; 10.7.2 Discussion; 10.7.3 Catalogue. The 1970s excavations at Broxmouth represent one of the most comprehensive examinations of any Iron Age hillfort. It was also the place where a whole generation of Scottish archaeologists learned their trade. Like many projects of its time, however, Broxmouth remained unpublished, other...Hunter, Fraser
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Technical report
Ceramic resource disc: later pottery & porcelain from Ronaldson Wharf Leith
The Leith Ronaldson’s Wharf excavations carried out by the City of Edinburgh Archaeological Servicein 1997. This large urban excavation covered two large areas either side of the medieval main street Sandport Street laid out formally in the 12th century overlying and incorporating the pre burgh fishing settlement and port. The...Haggarty, George
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Journal article
The re-dating of some Scottish specimens by the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU)
The purpose of this note is to alert readers to the fact that some AMS dates determined by ORAU on Scottish material between 2000 and 2002 have had to be deleted and re-determined, because of a problem in the ultrafiltration system used to pretreat bone samples during that period (see...Sheridan, J A ; Higham, Tom
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Book chapter
Middle Neolithic pottery
Cowie, Trevor
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Book chapter
Shale and cannel coal
Hunter, Fraser
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Book chapter
Worked bone and antler
Sections: 10.3.1 Introduction; 10.3.2 Sources of raw materials; 10.3.3 Working evidence; 10.3.4 Production technology and its development; 10.3.5 Object range (Tools, Ornaments, Weaponry, Fixtures and Fittings, Object Lives); 10.3.6 Decoration; 10.3.7 The assemblage in context; 10.3.8 Catalogue.Hunter, Fraser
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Materials and materiality
Sections: 10.1.1 Introdution; 10.1.2 Preservation and recovery; 10.1.3 Phasing and chronology; 10.1.4 Biographies of materials (Crops, consumption and craft at Broxmouth and beyond; Re-use and recycling; Identities and social relationships beyond Broxmouth); 10.1.5 The materiality of Broxmouth.Maxwell, Mhairi
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Journal article
Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the NE Atlantic archipelagos
The appearance of farming, from its inception in the Near East around 12 000 years ago, finally reached the northwestern extremes of Europe by the fourth millennium BC or shortly thereafter. Various models have been invoked to explain the Neolithization of northern Europe; however, resolving these different scenarios has proved...Cramp, Lucy J E ; Jones, Jennifer ; Sheridan, J A ; Smyth, Jessica ; Whelton, Helen …
stable carbon isotopes, lipids, Neolithic diet, pottery, biomarkers, and archaeology