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2016
Journal article
‘Keeping a close watch: pottery, faunal remains and artefacts from Perth Watching Briefs’
Analysis of artefacts of metal, leather and wood, pottery, textile and environmental remains from archae-ological watching briefs in Perth in the 1980s and 1990s has uncovered several items including decorated leather fragments and an M-shaped handle of a type not previously recorded in Perth. Mainly dating to the 12th to...Smith, Catherine ; Hall, Derek ; Habib, Vanessa ; Thomas, Clare ; Haggarty, George
medieval, leather, oyster, Perth, pottery, and watching brief
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2016
Book chapter
Scottish Neolithic pottery in 2016: the big picture and some details of the narrative
This contribution summarises our present state of knowledge about Scottish Neolithic pottery, emphasising its dual origins in the Continental Middle Neolithic ceramic traditions of Brittany and the northernmost part of France, and tracing the subsequent expansion in its use within Scotland and some of the complexities of its developmental trajectories....Sheridan, J A
Scotland, ceramic traditions, Grooved Ware, pottery terminology, Castellic, Carinated Bowl, Impressed Wares, Neolithic, and pottery
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2014
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