Coastal Shell Middens and Agricultural Origins in Atlantic Europe
Coastal Shell Middens and Agricultural Origins in Atlantic Europe
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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...

  • 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
  • Milner, N. forthcoming. Mesolithic middens and marine molluscs: procurement and consumption of shellfish at the site of Sand, Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports
  • Milner, N. forthcoming. A study of the marine molluscs from the Scotland’s First Settlers test pit sites, Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports
  • Milner, N. forthcoming. Consumption of crabs in the Mesolithic: side stepping the evidence? Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports


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