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标题：Transitions And Transformations: Investigations Into The Prehistory Of The Ardnamurchan Peninsula
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作者：Hannah Cobb (University of Manchester) ; Phil Richardson (University of ; Newcastle) 等
期刊名称：Past : The Newsletter of the Prehistoric Society
出版年度：2006
卷号：54
出版社：University College London, Institute of Archaeology
摘要：The last few decades have seen an explosion of work on the prehistory of the west coast of Scotland and this has provided a significant contribution to our understanding of the area, as attested by the recent publication of several detailed period-specific accounts, such as Warren抯 Mesolithic Lives in Scotland and Noble抯 Neolithic Scotland: Timber, Stone, Earth, Fire. Yet, amongst this proliferation of work there has been one area of the west coast that has remained relatively understudied: the Ardnamurchan Peninsula. The sum of recent work on the peninsula is the basic survey of the three chambered tombs identified as part of Henshall抯 seminal study of the chambered tombs of Scotland in the 1960s, the small scale excavation of a lithic scatter in the early 1980s and the excavations in the 1990s of the Mesolithic site of Risga in Loch Sunart by a team from the University of Glasgow. Consequently our knowledge of the early prehistory of the area and the key transitions from hunting and gathering to farming and metalworking is limited.