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A sequence for the Orcadian Neolithic?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

J. R. Hunter and
A. Macsween
J. R. Hunter
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeological Sciences, The University, Bradford West Yorkshire BD7 1DP, UK
A. Macsween
Affiliation:
AOC (Scotland) Ltd, Edinburgh
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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 249 , December 1991, pp. 911 - 914
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1991

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The Orkney Neolithic is made special by the survival of many sites of great variety and distinction on these scattered islands off northern Scotland. Yet chronology is made difficult by separate burial and settlement sites, and two independent – as it seems – ceramic traditions. Here they are brought together in one site, which clarifies pottery sequences throughout the islands.

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