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Life on the Edge: The Neolithic and Bronze Age of Iain Crawford's Udal, North Uist (Hardcover)
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Life on the Edge: The Neolithic and Bronze Age of Iain Crawford's Udal, North Uist (Hardcover)
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The discovery of archaeological structures in North Uist in 1974
after storm damage led to the identification by Iain Crawford of a
kerb cairn complex, with a cist and human remains. Six years later
he went back, and over the next three years excavated another cist
with human remains in its kerbed cairn, many bowl pits dug into the
blown sand, and down to two late Neolithic structures and a ritual
complex. He intensively studied the environmental conditions
affecting the site and was among the first archaeologists in
Scotland to understand the climate changes taking place at the
transition between late Neolithic and the early Bronze Age. The
deposition of blown sand and the start of the machair in the
Western Isles, including the rise in sea-level and inundations into
inhabited and farmed landscapes, are all part of the complex story
of natural events and human activities. Radiocarbon dating and
modern scientific analyses provide the detail of the story of
periods of starvation suffered by the people that were buried on
the site, of the movement away of the community, of their attempts
of bringing the 'new' land back into cultivation, of a temporary
tent-like structure, and of marking their territory by the
construction of enduring monuments to the dead.
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