TY - CHAP
T1 - Palynological studies in northeast Skye and Raasay
AU - Green, Fraser
AU - Edwards, Kevin
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Pollen, microscopic charcoal and radiocarbon studies at four sites on Skye and Raasay provide environmental contexts for the archaeological investigations of Scotland’s First Settlers around the Inner Sound. One coring site, from a loch in northern Trotternish, Skye, provides a regional summary of environmental change. Other sites closer to the rockshelter at An Corran, Trotternish, furnish more localised pictures of landscape change, some of which may be associated with human intervention of Mesolithic age. Intertidal organic deposits from Raasay assist in reconstructing the early Holocene environment of the area. General date ranges have been presented as uncalibrated, radiocarbon years BP. AMS radiocarbon dates were obtained on bulk sediments and these appear at the sides of the pollen diagrams as calibrated years BP. Calibration was undertaken via the program CALIB v. 5.0.1 (Stuiver & Reimer 2005). Dating estimates are based on straight-line extrapolations with the dates rounded to the nearest ten years and by-passing dates which are out of time sequence (as at Loch Cleat; Edwards & Whittington 2001).
AB - Pollen, microscopic charcoal and radiocarbon studies at four sites on Skye and Raasay provide environmental contexts for the archaeological investigations of Scotland’s First Settlers around the Inner Sound. One coring site, from a loch in northern Trotternish, Skye, provides a regional summary of environmental change. Other sites closer to the rockshelter at An Corran, Trotternish, furnish more localised pictures of landscape change, some of which may be associated with human intervention of Mesolithic age. Intertidal organic deposits from Raasay assist in reconstructing the early Holocene environment of the area. General date ranges have been presented as uncalibrated, radiocarbon years BP. AMS radiocarbon dates were obtained on bulk sediments and these appear at the sides of the pollen diagrams as calibrated years BP. Calibration was undertaken via the program CALIB v. 5.0.1 (Stuiver & Reimer 2005). Dating estimates are based on straight-line extrapolations with the dates rounded to the nearest ten years and by-passing dates which are out of time sequence (as at Loch Cleat; Edwards & Whittington 2001).
M3 - Chapter
VL - 31
T3 - Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports
SP - 481
EP - 490
BT - Mesolithic and later sites around the Inner Sound, Scotland
A2 - Hardy, Karen
A2 - Wickham-Jones, Caroline
PB - Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
CY - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ER -