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The end of the world, or just ‘Goodbye to all that’? Contextualising the red deer heap from the Links of Noltland, Westray, within late third millennium cal BC Orkney

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As part of a major international research project, The Times of Their Lives, a programme of radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling was undertaken to refine the chronology of activities in one small but important part of the extensive Late Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement on Links of Noltland on the island of Westray, Orkney. The selected area (Trench D) is well known for having produced, next to a wall, the remains of a heap of at least 15 red deer carcasses, on top of which had been pl...

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10.9750/PSAS.146.1226

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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Journal:
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland More from this journal
Volume:
146
Pages:
57-89
Publication date:
2017-11-30
Acceptance date:
2017-02-09
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ISSN:
0081-1564
Pubs id:
pubs:815412
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uuid:ffe8c0bc-e0de-438c-80bc-34aa130f6e0b
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pubs:815412
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815412
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2018-01-08

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