Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface ix
4. 1. The Northward March of Palaeolithic Man in Britain’: An Appreciation of Armand Donald Lacaille 1
5. PART 1: THE ENVIRONMENTAL BACKGROUND
6. 2. A Mesolithic of the Western and Northern Isles of Scotland? Evidence from Pollen and Charcoal 23
7. 3. Microscopic Charcoal Records, Inferred Human Activity and Climate Change in the Mesolithic of Northernmost Scotland 39
8. 4. Damp Squib: How to Fire a Major Deciduous Forest in an Inclement Climate 62
9. 5. Climate Change Events as Seen in the Greenland Ice Core (GISP2): Implications for the Mesolithic of Scotland 74
10. PART 2: REGIONAL STUDIES
11. 6. Rivers, Boundaries and Change: A Hypothesis of Changing Settlement Patterns in the Mesolithic of Northern England 87
12. 7. The Contribution of Tom Affleck to the Study of the Mesolithic of Southwest Scotland 108
13. 8. The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic Project: Reconstructing Mesolithic Settlement in Western Scotland 123
14. 9. Archaeology on the Edge: Learning to Fend for Ourselves 152
15. PART 3: MARINE ADAPTATIONS
16. 10. It Is the Technical Side of the Work which is My Stumbling Block: A Shell Midden Site on Risga Reconsidered 165
17. 11. The ‘Obanian Problem’: Coastal Adaptation in the Mesolithic of Western Scotland 183
18. 12. Time and Tide: Coastal Environments, Cosmology and Ritual Practice in Early Prehistoric Scotland 198
19. PART 4: MATERIAL CULTURE
20. 13. Lacaille, Microliths and the Mesolithic of Orkney 213
21. 14. The Rough and the Smooth: Axe Polishers of the Middle Neolithic 225
22. 15. Self and Social Identity: An Analysis of the Mesolithic body Adornment from the Scottish Western Isles 237
23. 16. Mesolithic Chipped Stone Assemblages: Descriptive and Analytical Procedures Used by the Southern Hebrides Mesolithic Project 252
24. PART 5: SOCIAL CHANGE
25. 17. The Transition to Agriculture 1: Introduction 269
26. The Transition to Agriculture 2: The Basis for Change 271
27. The Transition to Agriculture 3: Scotland 280
28. 18. Food for Thought: Material Culture and the Transformation in Food Use from the Mesolithic to Neolithic 291