Archaeology thesis and dissertation collection
Recent Submissions
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Bone histopathology: the effects of pathology on bone microstructure and implications for histological age estimation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)Age estimation is a vital part of the creation of a biological profile for the purposes of identifying unknown individuals. Numerous macroscopic methods of analysing bone have been developed for this purpose. In some ... -
Geoarchaeology of burnt mounds: site formation processes, use patterns, and duration
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)Burnt mounds, accumulations of fire-cracked stone and fuel residues dating largely from the Bronze Age, are a widespread and numerous site type across Britain and Ireland. However, the function, duration, and depositional ... -
First analysis of multiple blunt force weapon-tools using skin-skull-brain models to evaluate inter-personal violence in the European Neolithic
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)The study of violence-related head trauma is often complicated as a variety of weapons can produce similar forms of injury, which has limited the analysis of some forms of violence during the Neolithic in Europe. The ... -
Landscape archaeology of St Kilda
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)The archipelago of St Kilda has received more attention from writers than any other in Scotland. Its allure to the Scottish romantic ideal, coupled with its central importance in widely held notions of Scotland’s remote ... -
Feasting and shared drinking practices in the Early Bronze Age II-III (2650-2000 BC) of north-central and western Anatolia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2014-11-26)Feasting and shared drinking are long suspected to have been practiced in Anatolian settlements during the Early Bronze Age (EBA). New drinking vessels of metal and ceramic seem meant for drinking together with others. ... -
From tribes to kingdoms? Society and change in South-West Scotland 0 – 600 AD
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)The prehistory and early history of Scotland have been the subject of academic interest since the antiquarian period, but most of this interest has been focused on the Eastern, Northern and Atlantic regions of Scotland. ... -
A contribution to the Later Prehistoric and Early Medieval (400 BC - AD 650) settlement record of Galloway
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)This critical review concerns a sequence of two archaeological excavations and a regional synthesis undertaken between 2003 and 2012 and subsequently published between 2007 and 2016. The various projects were focussed ... -
Funerary rites afforded to children in earlier Bronze Age Britain: case studies from Scotland, Yorkshire and Wessex
(The University of Edinburgh, 2012)This thesis discusses the evidence for funerary practices afforded to children in the Earlier Bronze Age in Britain (circa 2500BC to 1400BC) focusing on three key case study areas: Scotland, Yorkshire and Wessex. A long ... -
The medieval castle in Scotland: Rhind lectures in archaeology, 1925-26
(The University of Edinburgh, 1929)THIS volume is based upon the lectures under the Rhind Bequest which, by invitation of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, were delivered by the author in the early part of 1926. The material has been revised and ... -
The final revival of the Aegean Bronze Age: a case study of the Argolid, Corinthia, Attica, Euboea, the Cyclades and the Dodecanese during LH IIIC Middle
(The University of Edinburgh, 2005)My thesis examines the post palatial phase of Late Helladic IIIC Middle. The beginning of this period is marked with the collapse of the Mycenaean system dating roughly to 1200 B.C., while after its final phase the Early ... -
Archaeological field survey of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement sites in Kyrenia District, North Cyprus : systematic surface collection and the interpretation of artefact scatters
(The University of Edinburgh, 1999)For nearly 24 years, the archaeology of northern Cyprus has not been investigated as thoroughly as that in the southern part of the island. All foreign projects, which are responsible for the substantial majority of the ... -
Archaeology of the haut pays (Belgium); the prehistory of the haine valley until the beginning of the bronze age
(The University of Edinburgh, 1959)This work is an attempt to study the complete sequence of material cultures in an area of limited extent up to its settlement by metal using peoples. As such it is scarcely an originally conceived project for surveys of ... -
Studies in the archaeology of temperate Europe
(The University of Edinburgh, 2011)This submission consists of monographs, journal articles and other contributions, authored singly or in concert with others, relating to three distinct fields detailed below within the broader domain of the archaeology ... -
Demand and supply in UK archaeological employment, 1990‐2010
(The University of Edinburgh, 2011-06-30)The core of this thesis comprises three previous published reports ‐ Profiling the Profession: a survey of archaeological jobs in the UK (Aitchison 1999), Archaeology Labour Market Intelligence: Profiling the Profession ... -
Necropolis of Kissonerga-Ammoudhia: techniques of ceramic production in Early-Middle Bronze Age Western Cyprus
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-11-26)The Early-Middle Bronze Age in Cyprus (c. 2300-1650 BCE) is still poorly understood, in spite of Cyprus’s strategic importance in the Mediterranean and the revolutionary cultural transformations that occurred at the end ... -
Utilitarian ceramics in the Byzantine Peloponnese (8th – 13th century): the economics of the ceramics and ceramic production in the context of economic cycles
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-03)Utilitarian unglazed ceramics constitute an important range of evidence for investigating cultural and economic identities. The present research project analyses commonly used, unglazed Byzantine vessels from stratified ... -
Secondary neolithic in Great Britain
(The University of Edinburgh, 1972)This thesis re-examines the material included by Piggott in his Secondary Neolithic cultures. A detailed study has been made of the pottery styles known as Peterborough and Rinyo Clacton and a catalogue of this pottery ... -
Age estimation on two Mediterranean samples using rib histomorphometry
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-26)Estimation of age is a crucial step for the identification of unknown individuals. Age is commonly assessed through macroscopic analytical methods based on the gross-examination of age degenerative changes in the skeleton. ... -
Dental metric standards for sex estimation in archaeological populations from Iran
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-03)Sex estimation of skeletal remains is one of the major components of forensic identification of unknown individuals. Teeth are a potential source of information on sex and are often recovered in archaeological or forensic ... -
Aspects of economy and environment of north west Lewis in the first millennium AD: the non-marine faunal evidence from Bostadh and Beirgh considered within the framework of north Atlantic Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2005)The non -marine faunal remains from excavations at the sites of Bostadh Beach, Great Bernera and Loch na Beirgh, Bhaltos, Lewis were analysed to investigate aspects of the economy and environment in the first millennium ...
