This paper reviews the current state of geophysics in Scottish archaeology, considering the
scope of the surveys, the range of targets investigated and techniques deployed, as well as …

The Mesolithic in Britain proposes a new division of the Mesolithic period into four parts,
each with its distinct character. The Mesolithic has previously been seen as timeless, where …

Ancient DNA studies have identified western Scotland as the only known region in Britain
where inter-breeding occurred between early 4th millennium bc Neolithic migrants and the …

The past decade has witnessed an intensification of research into the use of pottery by
hunter-gatherers. Long viewed by Western scholars as a marginal practice among these …

The Atlantic coast of north-west France is one of the classic shell-midden regions of the
European Mesolithic, made famous by the excavations of Téviec and Hoedic in the first half …

ABSTRACT The Holocene Storegga tsunami, 8120–8175 cal a bp, resulted in run‐up
heights of up to 3–6 m around mainland UK and coincided with a suggested large …

Exploring the Antonine Wall with terrestrial remote sensing has three main aims. The first is
to make more widely available the data from the numerous geophysical surveys that have …

Mesolithic populations from coastal areas are known as hunter-gatherer-fishers. This way of
life is visible in the landscape owing to the presence of large accumulations of shells named …

In 2001 excavation works undertaken in advance of quarrying at East Barns, East Lothian,
revealed the substantial remains of a robust Mesolithic house structure, securely dated to …

Popular readings of the Hebrides have tended to simplify its history into two layers of
development. What forms the landscape of modern times, with its nineteenth-century roots in …