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• Title:The land was forever : 15000 years in north-east Scotland : excavation on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/Balmedie-Tipperty / Kirsty Dingwall, Matt Ginnever, Richard Tipping, Jurgen van Wessell, Don Wilson.
  
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• Author/Creator:Dingwall, Kirsty, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Ginnever, Matt, author.
  Tipping, R. M. (Richard M.), author.
  Van Wessel, Jürgen, author.
  Wilson, Don, author.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2019.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: GN806.A34 A73 2019
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Excavations (Archaeology)--Scotland--Aberdeenshire.
  Historic sites--Scotland--Aberdeenshire.
  Aberdeenshire (Scotland)--Antiquities.
  
• Description:xvi, 360 pages : illustrations (some color, some black and white), maps (some color, some black and white) ; 31 cm
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1785709887 hardback
  9781785709883 hardback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction / Don Wilson
  1.1. route
  1.2. Project background
  1.3. Archaeological background
  1.4. Geological and topographic background
  1.5. Project aims and objectives
  1.6. Technical methodologies
  1.7. Organisation of the report
  ch. 2 landscape through time: Milltimber and the River Dee / Don Wilson
  2.1. Introduction to the circumstances of discovery at Milltimber
  2.2. Background to the archaeology of the River Dee valley
  2.3. Radiocarbon results and dating
  2.4. Introduction to the landscape of the Dee at Milltimber
  2.5. Evidence for the Late Upper Palaeolithic on the River Dee
  2.6. Mesolithic activity
  2.7. Settlement activity at Milltimber in the Neolithic
  2.8. Enclosing and defining spaces: the Chalcolithic at Milltimber
  2500
  2200 BC
  2.9. Milltimber in later prehistory
  1550
  100 BC
  2.10. military presence: the Romans at Milltimber
  AD 83/84
  2.11. Agricultural expansion at Milltimber: Early historic enclosures and a kiln
  400
  1000 AD
  2.12. Undated features
  2.13. Environmental synthesis
  2.14. Materials synthesis
  2.15. Discussion
  ch. 3 Between the Dee and the Don: Settlement, life and death in the Bronze Age / Jurgen van Wessel
  3.1. Introduction to the circumstances of discovery at Nether Beanshill, Gairnhill and Chapel of Stoneywood
  3.2. Background to the archaeology of the Dee to Don Landscape
  3.3. Radiocarbon results and dating
  3.4. Nether Beanshill
  3.5. Gairnhill
  3.6. Chapel of Stoneywood
  3.7. Environmental synthesis
  3.8. Materials synthesis
  3.9. Discussion
  ch. 4 Standingstones, an Upland Camp / Jurgen van Wessel
  4.1. Introduction to the circumstances of discovery at Standingstones
  4.2. Archaeological context
  4.3. Environmental context
  4.4. Radiocarbon results and dating
  4.5. Standingstones
  4.6. Environmental synthesis
  4.7. Materials synthesis
  4.8. Discussion
  ch. 5 Goval: Intermittent settlement activity on the banks of the Don / Jurgen van Wessel
  5.1. Introduction to the circumstances of discovery at Goval
  5.2. Archaeological context and past settlement patterns
  5.3. Environmental context
  5.4. Radiocarbon results and dating
  5.5. Neolithic pits
  5.6. Bronze Age roundhouse
  - Structure A
  5.7. Iron Age activity at Goval
  5.8. Early historic gully
  5.9. Medieval and post-medieval agriculture
  5.10. Environmental synthesis
  5.11. Materials synthesis
  5.12. Discussion
  ch. 6 coastal plain / Don Wilson
  6.1. Introduction to the circumstances of discovery at Blackdog, Wester Hatton and Middlefield
  6.2. Archaeological context and past settlement patterns
  6.3. Environmental context
  6.4. Radiocarbon results and dating
  6.5. Mesolithic/Neolithic activity at Blackdog
  6.6. Occupation at Wester Hatton
  6.7. Bronze Age activity at Middlefield
  6.8. Environmental synthesis
  6.9. Materials synthesis
  6.10. Discussion
  ch. 7 Spaces, places and finding the traces; concluding thoughts on the context of discoveries of the AWPR/B-T / Jurgen van Wessel
  7.1. chronological examination of significance
  7.2. Gaps, mobility and connection to landscapes
  7.3. Traces in the field: lessons from infrastructure methodologies
  7.4. Conclusions
  References
  Digital Appendices Contents
  Appendix 1 Assessment Reports
  Appendix 2 Technical Reports
  Appendix 3 Radiocarbon Certificates
  Appendix 4 Report Concordance.