Scotland after the Ice Age : environment, archaeology and history, 8000 BC - AD 1000 / edited by Kevin J. Edwards and Ian B.M. Ralston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Kevin J., Author.

Contributor:

Edwards, Kevin J., editor.

Ralston, Ian, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prehistoric peoples--Scotland.

Prehistoric peoples.

Antiquities, Prehistoric--Scotland.

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Scotland.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Environmental archaeology--Scotland.

Environmental archaeology.

Scotland--Antiquities.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 331 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2008.

Summary:

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748617364);This 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 9,000 years later. When the icefields and glaciers disappeared forests covered the land and sea level rose to create the Hebridean islands. Elk, aurochs, bear, boar, red deer, beaver and horse crossed the land bridge from Europe to colonise the land, first followed by hunter gatherers and later by waves of Celts, Romans, Scots, and Normans, each marking the landscape in distinctive ways. This book brings together environmental, ecological, historical, geological, and archaeological approaches to show how changing climatic conditions and this sequence of cultural impacts shaped the succession of Scottish landscapes which have led to its present unique, beautiful, fleeting forms and variety.The seventeen authors are scholars from a range of fields, all writing for students and general readers. 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 9,000 years. The final chapter unites these systematic and historical approaches.The book is extensively illustrated with maps and photographs. The paperback edition includes a new and extensive guide to further reading."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

List of Plates

List of Tables

List of Authors

Preface

1 Environment and People in Prehistoric and Early Historical Times: Preliminary Considerations

2 Climate Change

3 Geomorphology and Landscape Change

4 Soils and Their Evolution

5 Vegetation Change

6 Faunal Change

7 The Mesolithic

8 The Neolithic

9 The Bronze Age

10 The Iron Age

11 The Roman Presence: Brief Interludes

12 The Early Historic Period: An Archaeological Perspective

13 The Early Norse Period

14 Environment and Archaeology in Scotland: Some Observations

References

A Guide to the Literature since 1996

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Updated ed. of: Scotland : environment and archaeology, 8000 BC-AD 1000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-320) and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-6799-7