24933
Title Of Article Chaper
Typology and chronology in the later prehistoric pottery assemblages of the Western Isles
Title Of Journal Book
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Volume
117
Pages
67-84
Collation
figs.
Reference Bibliography
refs.
ISSN
0081-1564
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
A reexamination of the pottery from major sites in the Western Isles, taking into account the problems of calibration of the carbon-14 dates and the dating of the small finds, suggests that typologies based on form and decoration are over-simplistic.
Keywords
typology;chronology;prehistoric;Scotland (Western Isles); radiocarbon dating;archaeological sites;ceramics;calibration;dating; decoration
pub_id
24933