n.a. (2003). Scotland after the Ice Age:. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Title:

Scotland after the Ice Age:

Subtitle:

environment, archaeology and history 8000 BC -- AD 1000

Number of Pages:

349

Publication Type:

Monograph Chapter

Abstract:

The book charts the environmental transformation of Scotland from the end of the Ice Age in an empty land 10,000 years ago to the Viking invasions of an established society 9000 years later. It brings together environmental, ecological, historical, geological, and archaeological approaches to show how changing climatic conditions and the sequence of cultural impacts shaped the succession of Scottish landscapes.The first six chapters consider interactions of human ecology, climate, landscape, soils, vegetation and faunal change. The next seven are a chronological narrative history of Scotland's environment over 9000 years. The final chapter unites these systematic and historical approaches. Includes

Issue Editor:

Ian Ralston

Kevin J Edwards

Publisher:

Edinburgh University Press

Year of Publication:

2003

ISBN:

0-7486-1736-1

Subjects / Periods:

	Environment (BIAB)
Mesolithic (BIAB)
	Settlement [As Process] (BIAB)

Note:

Is Portmanteau: 1

Source:

BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))

Created Date:

07 Jul 2004

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Chapter Title	Author / Editor	Page Start/End
Environment and people in prehistoric and early historical times: preliminary considerations	Ian Ralston Kevin J Edwards	1 - 10
Climate change	Kevin J Edwards Graeme Whittington	11 - 22
Geomorphology and landscape change	Alastair G Dawson Colin K Ballantyne	23 - 44
Soils and their evolution	Stephen P Carter Donald A Davidson	45 - 62
Vegetation change	Graeme Whittington Kevin J Edwards	63 - 82
Faunal change: the vertebrate fauna	Paul C Buckland Finbar McCormick	83 - 108
Land snails	Stephen P Carter	104
Insects	Jon P Sadler Paul C Buckland	105 - 108
The Mesolithic	Kevin J Edwards Bill Finlayson	109 - 125
The Neolithic	Gordon J Barclay	127 - 149
The Bronze Age	Ian A G Shepherd Trevor G Cowie	151 - 168
The Iron Age	Ian Ralston Ian Armit	169 - 193
The Roman presence: brief interludes	William S Hanson	195 - 216
The Early Historic period: an archaeological perspective	Ian Armit Ian Ralston	217 - 239
The Early Norse period	John R Hunter	241 - 254
Environment and archaeology in Scotland: some observations	Ian Ralston Kevin J Edwards	255 - 266