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St Kildas: stone tools, dolerite quarries and long-term survival

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Andrew Fleming
Andrew Fleming*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Wales, Lampeter SA48 7ED, Dyfed, Wales
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St Kilda, the little group of islands far offshore from northwest Scotland, was known for its seabird subsistence in the period before its evacuation in 1930. Recent discoveries suggest that the importance of agriculture in the prehistoric period (before the 16th century AD) may have been underestimated.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 262 , March 1995 , pp. 25 - 35
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995 

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