Scotland's
First Settlers-
The shellfish and crab remains
from the Mesolithic rockshelter at Sand, Applecross, have been analysed
as part of the Scotland’s First Settlers project (http://www.moray.ac.uk/ccs/settlers.htm)
in collaboration with Dr Karen Hardy and Caroline Wickham-Jones (see
also Antiquity paper). As well as excavating the site of Sand, the Inner
Sound coastline was surveyed and a further 164 hitherto unknown sites
were found. Thirty-eight of these sites were test-pitted producing further
information of past human use. The molluscs from these sites have also
been analysed.
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Relevant publications...
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Hardy, K. and Wickham-Jones, C. 2002. Scotland’s First Settlers: the Mesolithic seascape of the Inner Sound, Skye and its contribution to the early prehistory of Scotland, Antiquity 76, 825-33
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Milner, N. forthcoming. Mesolithic middens and marine molluscs: procurement and consumption of shellfish at the site of Sand, Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports
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Milner, N. forthcoming. A study of the marine molluscs from the Scotland’s First Settlers test pit sites, Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports
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Milner, N. forthcoming. Consumption of crabs in the Mesolithic: side stepping the evidence? Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports
