Along the Atlantic seaboard, from Scotland to Spain, are numerous rock carvings made four
to five thousand years ago, whose interpretation poses a major challenge to the …

The Iron Age in Northern Britain examines the archaeological evidence for earlier Iron Age
communities from the southern Pennines to the Northern and Western Isles and the impact …

Models of the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Britain in recent years have tended to
downplay the role of changes in the subsistence economy, emphasizing a very gradual …

Strontium isotope analysis of tooth enamel is a useful provenancing technique to investigate
the childhood origins and residential mobility of ancient people. However, where different …

Ancient Egyptians are thought to have been the only people in the Old World who were
practising mummification in the Bronze Age (c. 2200-700 BC). But now a remarkable series …

This new approach to Highland history before the Clearances draws attention to little-
studied yet important economic and social processes within the Highland clan system and …

This study explores the history of the western seaboard of Scotland (the Hebrides, Argyll and
the Isle of Man) in a formative but often neglected era: the central middle ages, from the …

Lakes are excellent repositories of air-borne and especially stream-borne materials. It has
long been recognised that lake sediments contain a strong record of catchment soils via the …

It may be surprising to learn that this book is the first ever survey of the Atlantic Iron Age: this
tradition is cited in archaeology frequently enough to seem firmly established, yet has never …

The north-east mainland of Scotland and the archipelagos Orkney and Shetland formed a
distinct geographical and cultural region throughout the Holocene. Synthesis of over 40 …