Scotland's first settlers: The mesolithic seascape of the inner sound, skye and its contribution to the early prehistory of Scotland

Antiquity

Volumn 76, Issue 293, 2002, Pages 825-833

  Hardy, Karen ^a   Wickham Jones, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0036733136     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00091304     Document Type: Article

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