Scotland After the Ice Age: Environment, Archaeology and History 8000 BC - AD 1000

by Ian Ralston and Kevin J. Edwards

This book charts the environmental transformation of Scotland from the end of the ice age in an empty land 10,000 years ago to the Viking invasions of an established society 9,000 years later. When the icefields and glaciers disappeared forests covered the land and sea level rose to create the Hebridean islands. Elk, aurochs, bear, boar, red deer, beaver and horse crossed the land bridge from Europe to colonise the land, first followed by hunter gatherers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748617361
• ISBN13: 9780748617364
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher