Between the Wind and the Water: World Heritage Orkney
Author:   Caroline Wickham-Jones
Publisher:   Windgather Press
ISBN:  

9781905119066


Pages:   178
Publication Date:   01 July 2006
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Caroline Wickham-Jones
Publisher:   Windgather Press
Imprint:   Windgather Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.50cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781905119066


ISBN 10:   1905119062
Pages:   178
Publication Date:   01 July 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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The story, the visit, the book. The people before: Mesolithic Orkney. Settling down and taming the land: life in the later Neolithic. A dance of stones: ceremony in the late Neolithic. The wider world of the Neolithic. The people after: the Bronze Age and Iron Age.Trade and temptation: early historic Orkney. Farmland, famine and visitors. Antiquarians and archaeologists. World heritage status: the ultimate accolade? Moving on.

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Caroline Wickham-Jones is an archaeologist specialising on the early settlement of Scotland. She graduated from Edinburgh University and has worked on the archaeology of Orkney for thirty years. She is the author of numerous academic papers as well as several books on archaeology including Scotland's First Settlers and The Landscape of Scotland. In 1998 she published a guidebook to the history and archaeology of Orkney. She is a regular columnist for British Archaeology and also the presenter of BBC Radio Orkney's award winning programme: Orky-ology. In 2002 she moved to live in Orkney where she enjoys both open spaces and wide skies.

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