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Author:   Nyree Finlay ,  Sinead McCartan ,  Nicky Milner ,  Caroline Wickham-Jones
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Volume:   No. 1
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9781842173558

ISBN 10:   1842173553
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 June 2009
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Format:   Hardback
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Editors' Foreword List of Peter Woodman's Publications PART 1: ARTEFACTS AND ANTIQUARIANS 1. Tinkering with Torcs: an unusual Bronze Age hoard from Kilsallagh, Co. Longford (Mary Cahill) 2. Craft Specialisation in the Mesolithic of Northern Britain: the evidence from the coarse stone tools ( Ann Clarke) 3. Futile Fragments? - some thoughts on microlith breakage patterns ( Nyree Finlay) 4. Prehistoric Chain Reactions - stories that help us understand the distant past (Thomas Kador) 5. The South Munster Antiquarian Society, Revisited (Joan E. Rockley) 6. Speculating on the Significance of an Axehead and a Bead from Luce Sands, Dumfries & Galloway, South-West Scotland (Alan Saville) PART 2: FIELDWORK 7. Prehistoric Reindeer Trapping by Stone-walled Pitfalls: news and views (Sveinung Band-Andersen) 8. A Mesolithic Site at Kilmore, near Oban, Western Scotland ( Clive Bonsall, Robert Payton, Mark G. Macklin and Graham A Ritchie) 9. Star Carr in the New Millennium (Chantal Conneller, Nicky Milner, Tim Schadla-Hall and Barry Talor) 10. Middle and Late Bronze Age Ritual Activity at Glencurran Cave, Co. Clare (Marion A. Dowd) 11. Constructing Later Mesolithic Landscapes ( Killian Driscoll) 12. Palynology `On the Edge' and the Archaeological Vindication of a Mesolithic Presence? The case of Shetland (Kevin J. Edwards, J. Edward Schofield, Graeme Whittington and Nigel D. Melton ) 13. Zvejnieki - Past, Present and Future. A Mesolithic-Neolithic settlement and cemetery site in northern Latvia (Lars Larsson) 14. The Island and the Hill. Extracting scales of sociability from a Mesolithic chert quarry (Aimee Little) 15. Belderrig: a `New' Later Mesolithic and Neolithic Landscape in Northwest Ireland (Graeme Warren) 16. Footsteps in the North - archaeological understanding and the settling of northern Scotland and the islands (Caroline Wickham-Jones) PART 3: PEOPLE AND ANIMALS 17. Late Mesolithic or Early Neolithic Burials? Examining the `Tauber line' ( Erik Brinch Petersen and Christopher Meiklejohn) 18. The `Complex Hunter-gatherer' and the Transition to Farming (Bill Finlayson) 19. O Analysis of Littorina littorea Shells from Ferriter's Cove, Dingle Peninsula: preliminary results and interpretations (Michael J. Kimball, William Showers, Sinead Mccartan and Bernard J. Genna) 20. Early Domestic Cattle in Southern Scandinavia and the Spread of the Neolithic in Europe (T. Douglas Price and Nanna Noe-Nygaard) 21. Ireland's Mammals: an annotated list (Paddy Sleeman and Derek Yalden) Index

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A well-produced and well-edited book.'--Mike Pitts British Archaeology 108 (01/01/0001)

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Nicky Milner is a Professor at the University of York, specialising in the Mesolithic period. She has co-directed excavations at Star Carr since 2004. Caroline Wickham-Jones is Lecturer in archaeology at the University of Aberdeen. She has worked on, and directed, archaeological excavation across Scotland including Skara Brae and Links of Noltland in Orkney. She directed the excavations of a Mesolithic site on the island of Rum and since then she has worked on a number of other Mesolithic projects including the sites at Camas Daraich, in Skye and Long Howe in Orkney, and as co-director of the Scotland's First Settlers Project. She is author of many publications including Fear of Farming (Windgather Press 2010).

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