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Shale and cannel coal
Hunter, Fraser
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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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Odyssey of an Amethyst Geode
Carrió, Vicen ; Stevenson, Suzie
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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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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
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Radiocarbon dating results from the Beaker People Project: Scottish samples.
The Beaker People Project is a major interdisciplinary five-year research programme, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by one of the authors (Mike Parker Pearson of Sheffield University). It aims to investigate patterns of diet, mobility and health in British Beaker-associated skeletons (and in contemporaneous non-Beaker...Sheridan, J A ; Parker Pearson, Mike ; Jay, Mandy ; Richards, Mike ; Curtis, Neil
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Introducing Mesolithic Scotland: the background to a developing field of study
The development of Mesolithic studies in Scotland is reviewed and set in context, Lacaille's Stone Age in Scotland, published in 1954, can be seen to mark the culmination of the first phase of Mesolithic research. Subsequent changing perceptions and the recent intensification of fieldwork are discussed, with a footnote on...Saville, Alan
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The project
Around AD 800, a superbly carved cross-slab was erected at Hilton of Cadboll in north-east Scotland. The major part of the stone stand now in the National Museum of Scotland, and the story of what happened to it in the intervening centuries is told here.Clarke, David V ; Foster, Sally M
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Special places for special axes? Early Bronze Age metalwork from Scotland in its landscape setting
This volume represents the publication of a highly successful conference held in 2003 to celebrate the contribution to Neolithic and Early Bronze Age studies of one of archaeology's finest synthesisers, Professor Stuart Piggott.Cowie, Trevor
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The construction of narratives for Neolithic Scotland
This volume represents the publication of a highly successful conference held in 2003 to celebrate the contribution to Neolithic and Early Bronze Age studies of one of archaeology's finest synthesisers, Professor Stuart Piggott.Clarke, David V
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The material culture of Mesolithic Scotland
The fundamental elements of material culture - essentially stone, bone and antler tools - surviving from the Mesolithic period in Scotland are described and discussed in terms of significance and chronologySaville, Alan
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Biodegradation of ivory (natural apatite): possible involvement of fungal activity in biodeterioration of the Lewis Chessmen
Fungal biodeterioration of ivory was investigated with in vitro inoculation of samples obtained from boar and walrus tusks with the fungi Aspergillus niger and Serpula himantioides, species of known geoactive abilities. A combination of light and scanning electron microscopy together with associated analytical techniques was used to characterize fungal interactions...Pinzari, Flavia ; Tate, Jim ; Bicchieri, Marina ; Rhee, Young Joon ; Gadd, Geoffrey Michael
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Commissioning art: objects, ethnography and contemporary collecting
Paper originating from MEG Conference 2002: Power and Collecting, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.Knowles, Chantal
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Scotland's land girls: breeches, bombers and backaches.
The roots of the Women’s Land Army lie in the First World War. There was an acute farm labour shortage because workers were needed for military service and horses were commandeered by the forces. By 1918 there were 23,000 Land Girls at work milking, ploughing and herding. In 1939, the... -
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Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitizing Epirrita autumnata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) larvae in Fennoscandia with description of Cotesia autumnatae Shaw, sp. n.
The microgastrine subset of hymenopteran parasitoids of the geometrid Epirrita autumnata is investigated in Fennoscandia. Ecology, including population dynamics, of the moth has been intensively studied in northern and mountainous Finland, Norway and Sweden. Recently supported hypotheses about the causes of its cyclic population dynamics stress the role of parasitoids,...Ruohomäki,, K ; Klemola, T ; Shaw, Mark R ; Snäll, N ; Sääksjärvi, I E …