Scarre, C. and Kemp, D. A., eds. (2000). Hunter-gatherer landscape archaeology: the Southern Hebrides Mesolithic Project 1988--98.. Cambridge: MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Title The title of the publication or report Title:	Hunter-gatherer landscape archaeology: the Southern Hebrides Mesolithic Project 1988--98.
Subtitle The sub title of the publication or report Subtitle:	Vol. 1: Project development, palaeoenvironmental studies and archaeological fieldwork on Islay
Series The series the publication or report is included in Series:	McDonald Institute Monograph series
Number of Pages The number of pages in the publication or report Number of Pages:	364
Publication Type The type of publication - report, monograph, journal article or chapter from a book Publication Type:	Monograph Chapter (in Series)
Abstract The abstract describing the content of the publication or report Abstract:	First volume of a two-volume report on a project aimed at documenting Mesolithic settlement on the islands of Islay and Colonsay and, in intepreting it, to throw light on a number of major issues: the colonisation of Scotland following the last Ice Age; the nature of early postglacial settlement patterns; and the transition to Neolithic and farming communities. The report is divided into nine sections, those in the first volume describing the aims and development of the project; palaeoenvironmental studies on raw materials, sea level change and vegetation history; and the results of archaeological survey and excavations on Islay, and in particular at Bolsay Farm. A key feature of the project is the application of a landscape approach to hunter-gatherer archaeology through multi-disciplinary research. Separately authored contributions include
Editor The editor of the publication or report Editor:	Chris Scarre Dora A Kemp
Issue Editor The editor of the volume or issue Issue Editor:	Steven J Mithen
Publisher The publisher of the publication or report Publisher:	MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Year of Publication The year the book, article or report was published Year of Publication:	2000
ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN:	1-902937-07-4
Note Extra information on the publication or report. Note:	Is Portmanteau: 1
Source Where the record has come from or which dataset it was orginally included in. Source:	BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
Created Date The date the record of the pubication was first entered Created Date:	19 Sep 2006

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Chapter Title	Author / Editor	Page Start/End
Introduction	Steven J Mithen	3 - 5
The Scottish Mesolithic: problems, prospects and the rationale for the Sout...	Steven J Mithen	9 - 37
Islay and Colonsay: an introduction to the fieldwork region	Steven J Mithen	39 - 51
Aims and development	Steven J Mithen	53 - 56
Archaeological fieldwork methods	Steven J Mithen	57 - 60
The cataloguing and analysis of lithic assemblages	Bill Finlayson Nyree Finlay Steven J Mithen	61 - 72
The distribution of beach pebble flint in Western Scotland with reference to raw material use during the Mesolithic	Gilbert Marshall	75 - 77
The distribution and character of flint beach pebbles on Islay as a source for Mesolithic chipped stone artefact production	Gilbert Marshall	79 - 90
Late Quaternary glaciomarine sedimentation in the Rinns of Islay, Scottish Inner Hebrides and the geological origin of flint nodules	Alastair G Dawson Susan Dawson	91 - 97
Late Pleistocene and Holocene relative sea level changes in Gruinart, Isle of Islay	Susan Dawson Alastair G Dawson	99 - 113
Vegetation history of the southern Inner Hebrides during the Mesolithic period	Kevin J Edwards	115 - 127
The early Holocene vegetational history of Loch a'Bhogaidh, southern Rinns, Islay, with special reference to hazel (Corylus avellana L.)	Sugden H Kevin J Edwards	129 - 135
A palaeoecological investigation of the vegetational and environmental history of the Loch Gorm area, northwest Islay	M J Bunting Althea L Davies Kevin J Edwards Michael Keith-Lucas	137 - 148
Archaeological fieldwork on Islay: an introduction	Steven J Mithen	151 - 152
The Islay survey	Steven J Mithen Bill Finlayson Margaret Mathews Patricia E Woodman	153 - 186
Gleann Mor, Islay: test-pit survey and trial excavation	Steven J Mithen Bill Finlayson	187 - 205
The coarse stone assemblage	Nyree Finlay Claire Whitehead	200 - 202
Soil micromorphology at Gleann Mor	Charles A I French	202 - 203
Thermoluminescence dates	Nick C Debenham	204
Rockside, Islay: test-pit survey and trial excavation	Steven J Mithen Nyree Finlay Tim Phillips	207 - 216
Coulererach, Islay: test-pit survey and trial excavation	Steven J Mithen Nyree Finlay	217 - 229
Soil micromorphology at the upper artefact horizon	Charles A I French	227 - 228
Thermoluminescence dating of burnt flint from Coulererach	Nick C Debenham	228 - 229
Aoradh, Islay: test-pit survey and trial excavation	Steven J Mithen Patricia E Woodman Nyree Finlay Bill Finlayson	231 - 239
Kindrochid, Islay: test-pit survey and trial excavation	Gilbert Marshall Steven J Mithen	241 - 249
LGM1, LGM2, BOW9, BOW10, PCH2, PCH3, Islay: test-pit surveys and gridded collections	Steven J Mithen Margaret Mathews Gilbert Marshall Nyree Finlay	251 - 257
Bolsay Farm, Islay: test-pit survey and trial excavation	Steven J Mithen M W Lake Nyree Finlay	259 - 289
The 1989 and 1992 test-pit survey: 1992 extension of the test-pit survey	Gilbert Marshall	268 - 269
The 1989 and 1992 test-pit survey: pottery	Ann MacSween	269
The 1990 excavations at Bolsay Farm: the coarse stone assemblage	Claire Whitehead	276 - 279
The 1990 excavations at Bolsay Farm: soil micromorphology of deposits in trench I, Bols...	Charles A I French	277 - 280
The 1990 excavations at Bolsay Farm: absolute dating: thermoluminescence dates on flint...	Nick C Debenham	280 - 281
Bolsay Farm, Islay: area excavation	Steven J Mithen M W Lake Nyree Finlay	291 - 328
Phosphate concentrations	Adrian Williams	301 - 302
Spatial distribution of the chipped stone: multivariate analysis	David N Smith	313 - 314
Wear traces, staining and differential patination on Bolsay Farm microliths: use-wear traces	Bill Finlayson	314
Wear traces, staining and differential patination on Bolsay Farm microliths: differential burning and patination on microliths ...	Nyree Finlay	315 - 318
The coarse stone	Claire Whitehead	318 - 319
The coarse stone: ground stone axe	Alison Sheridan	318 - 319
The pottery	Ann MacSween	320 - 323
The charred plant remains	Jaime Kaminski Sophie Seel	324 - 326