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9780748617364: Scotland After the Ice Age: Environment, Archaeology and History 8000 BC - AD 1000
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ISBN 10: 0748617361 ISBN 13: 9780748617364
Editorial: Edinburgh University Press, 2003

Sinopsis

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.

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Kevin Edwards is Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Aberdeen. He was previously Professor of Palaeoecology at the University of Sheffield.

Ian Ralston is Abercromby Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, is presently President of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. He has excavated hillforts in France at Mont Beuvray in Burgundy and Levroux and Bourges in Berry. The writer of some 150 published papers, he is the author or editor of more than 20 books. Ian has also extensively researched Scottish archaeological topics including both pre- and post-Roman hillforts.

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Editorial
Edinburgh University Press
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0748617361
ISBN 13 
9780748617364
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
336
Editor
Edwards Kevin J., Ralston Ian B. M.
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