Bibliograph

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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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

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The land was forever

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Kirsty Dingwall, Matt Ginnever, Richard Tipping, Jurgen van Wessell, Don Wilson

Sub title

15000 years in north-east Scotland : excavation on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/Balmedie-Tipperty

Summary

Eight sites were excavated along the route of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route between Balmedy to Tipperty. The sites are mostly multi-period. One site on the banks of the River Dee, revealed nine phases of activity extending from the Upper Palaeolithic through to the post-Medieval. Extensive specialist analysis has been undertaken on all sites, along with a program of radiocarbon dating, OSL dating, and Bayesian analysis. During the excavations, it was apparent how the specific landscape of each site was key to the activities taking place there, the periods and duration of activity and the extent to which people were passing through or settling. This was chosen as the overarching theme for analysis and publication, and the geological and topographical background is woven through the presentation of each site. Broadly speaking, the landscape 'units' identified were the River Dee valley, the Dee-Don uplands, a second upland zone around one specific site, the River Don valley, and the coastal plains. In addition to the individual site- evidence, a concluding chapter expands on three themes highlighted through the work

Target audience

adult

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