n.a. (1994). 7. The environmental evidence. In: n.e. Howe: Four Millennia of Orkney Prehistory Excavations 1978-1982. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. pp. 121-142.
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7. The environmental evidence | ||
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Howe: Four Millennia of Orkney Prehistory Excavations 1978-1982 | ||
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Monograph Series | ||
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09 | ||
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305 | ||
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121 - 142 | ||
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This chapter presents the environmental data from the site in seven sections, beginning with an introduction and followed by the specialist reports on plant remains, animal bone, bird remains, fish, marine mollusc and non-marine mollusca. Analysis of the data has been made by phase, with limited data deriving from Phases 1-4, some useful information from Phases 5/6 but the major part of the evidence offering detailed discussion is limited to the middle and later Iron Age, Phases 7 and 8, perhaps covering a timespan from the 1st to the 8th century cal AD. This represents the first comprehensive collection of information on the Iron Age environment from an excavation in the Northern Isles. Analysis of the plan and animal remains has shown that the Phase 7 settlement practiced a mixed arable and pastoral agriculture, growing naked six-row barley and keeping cattle, sheep and some pigs. This was supported by the hunting of wild animals, birds and fish, and by the gathering of wild plants and marine shellfish. There is no reason to believe that this was simply a consumer settlement, as there was evidence for cereal crop processing, the primary butchering of animal carcasses, and animal dung. The farmstead of Phase 8 presents new additions to the crop range of the Phase 7 settlement such as flax and hulled six-row barley; in addition, there are further economic changes such as the appearance of rabbits, the increase in domestic animals at the same time as the decline in deer and the use of healthy turves for fuel compensating for the decline in the use of wood. | ||
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1994 | ||
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