Scotland’s First Settlers

Preliminaries

• Brief contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Summary
• Acknowledgements
• List of contributors, surface addresses, email addresses
• List of Sponsors

1. Introduction | Karen Hardy & Caroline Wickham-Jones
2. Survey and Test Pitting
   • 2.1 Survey and Test Pitting around the Inner Sound | Karen Hardy
   • 2.2 Active Sites Report | Karen Hardy & Caroline Wickham-Jones (with contributions by Steve Ashby, Phil Austin, Ann Clarke, Ann MacSween, Fraser Hunter, Andrew Heald, David Caldwell, Jacqui Mulville, Adrienne Powell, Rachel Parks & Nicky Milner)
3. Sand
   • 3.1 Geographical Background to Sand | Karen Hardy & Caroline Wickham-Jones
   • 3.2 Excavation at Sand, rockshelter | Karen Hardy
   • 3.3 Excavation at Sand, the flaked lithic assemblage | Caroline Wickham-Jones
   • 3.4 Worked bone from Sand | Karen Hardy
   • 3.5 Worked and modified shell from Sand | Karen Hardy
   • 3.6 Coarse stone tools from the excavations at Sand rock shelter, Applecross | Ann Clarke
   • 3.7 Sand, Report on the Coarse Pottery | Ann MacSween
   • 3.8 Pigment resources report, excavations at Sand, Applecross 2000 | Arlene Isbister
   • 3.9 Metal, Slag and Glass from Sand | Andrew Heald & Fraser Hunter (with contributions by Stuart Campbell & Dawn McLaren)
   • 3.10 Report on human teeth from Sand | Rick Schulting
   • 3.11 The Zooarchaeology of Sand | Rachel Parks & James Barrett
   • 3.12 Mesolithic middens and marine molluscs, procurement and consumption of shellfish at the site of Sand | Nicky Milner
   • 3.13 Consumption of crabs in the Mesolithic, side stepping the evidence? | Nicky Milner
   • 3.14 Pearls | Karen Hardy
   • 3.15 The wood charcoal macro-remains from Mesolithic midden deposits at Sand, Applecross | Phil Austin
   • 3.16 Palynological studies at Sand, Applecross | Fraser Green and Kevin Edwards
   • 3.17 Geophysical survey at Sand, Applecross | Nyree Finlay & Lorna McAllan
4. Radiocarbon Determinations in Context | Patrick Ashmore & Caroline Wickham-Jones
5. Lithic Raw Material use Around the Inner Sound | Caroline Wickham-Jones
6. Report on pumice-like material from the Applecross Area | Anthony Newton
7. Sea-level change
   • 7.1 Late-glacial and Holocene Relative Sea-Level Change in Applecross, Raasay and eastern Skye | Alastair Dawson
   • 7.2 Relative Sea-Level Changes at Clachan Harbour, Raasay, Scottish Hebrides | Sue Dawson
8. Palaeobotanical evidence
   • 8.1 Palynological studies in north east Skye and Raasay | Fraser Green & Kevin Edwards
   • 8.2 The environment of the Applecross Peninsula coastal fringe: present and past | Robert Shiel with Andrew Stewart & Angi Silver
9. Retrospective discussion | Karen Hardy & Caroline Wickham-Jones

• Bibliography
• Appendices
  1. Catalogue of all sites (survey database)
  2. Sand, comprehensive list of contexts
  3. Sand 2000, concordance list
  4. Catalogue of the flaked lithic assemblage, all sites | Caroline Wickham-Jones
  5. Catalogue of the coarse stone, all sites | Ann Clarke
  6. Catalogue of the worked bone, all sites | Karen Hardy
  7. Report and catalogue of the coarse pottery, all sites | Ann MacSween
  8. Archive catalogue of pottery finds | Ann MacSween
  9. Catalogue of the metal, slag and glass, all sites | Fraser Hunter
  10. Catalogue of the nails and slag, all sites | Fraser Hunter
  11. Catalogue of the wood charcoal | Phil Austin
  12. Catalogue of the pigment resources | Arlene Isbister
  13. Catalogue of the lithic raw material samples collected from around the Inner Sound | Caroline Wickham-Jones
  14. Sand, B24B, shell | Nicky Milner
  15. Sand, Trench A, shell | Nicky Milner
  16. Sand, limpet measurements | Nicky Milner
  17. Sand, dogwhelk measurements | Nicky Milner
  18. Sand, periwinkle measurements | Nicky Milner
  19. Sand, statistical data for the shells | Nicky Milner
  20. Limpets with holes and other potentially worked or modified shell | Nicky Milner
  21. Labrid dentary, premaxilla and scapula measurements | Rachel Parks & James Barrett
  22. Sand, Mammal QC1 element measurements | Rachel Parks
  23. Sand, Bird QC1 element measurements | Rachel Parks
  24. Sand, Fish QC1 and QC4 element measurements | Rachel Parks
  25. Sand, Zoo-archaeology, Latin names for taxa mentioned in the text | Rachel Parks
  26. Sand, Estimated total length of saithe, pollack and Pollachius based on otolith measurement 2 from the main shell midden | Rachel Parks
  27. Fish QC1 and QC4 measurements taken (SFS 2, SFS 8, SFS 20, SFS 22, SFS 41, SFS 66 and SFS 89a) | Rachel Parks
  28. Test pit sites, Latin names for fish taxa mentioned in the text | Rachel Parks
  29. Catalogue of fish bone from the Test Pitted sites | Rachel Parks
  30. Catalogue of animal bone from the Test Pitted sites | Jacqui Mulville
  31. Lithic artefacts from the survey sites | Caroline Wickham-Jones
  32. Sand, Transect Soil Sample Descriptions | Robert Shiel with Andrew Stewart
  33. Publications list | Karen Hardy & Caroline Wickham-Jones
  34. Illustration gallery
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