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Cereals, fruits and nuts in the Scottish Neolithic (2009)
Journal Article
Bishop, R., Church, M., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2009). Cereals, fruits and nuts in the Scottish Neolithic. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 139, 47-103

The importance of wild and domestic plants within British Neolithic economies has been much disputed but the contribution of the Scottish archaeobotanical evidence to this issue has previously been understated. This paper assesses the use of plants i... Read More about Cereals, fruits and nuts in the Scottish Neolithic.

Pigs in the Faroe Islands: An ancient facet of the islands’ paleoeconomy (2009)
Journal Article
Arge, S., Church, M., & Brewington, S. (2009). Pigs in the Faroe Islands: An ancient facet of the islands’ paleoeconomy. Journal of the North Atlantic, 2, 19-32

This paper discusses the evidence for pig husbandry in the Faroes during the Norse and early Medieval periods. The evidence from zooarchaeology, biomolecular archaeology and place-name evidence is reviewed, proposing that the keeping of pigs was an i... Read More about Pigs in the Faroe Islands: An ancient facet of the islands’ paleoeconomy.