Islands of history: the Late Neolithic timescape of Orkney

• Autores: Alex Bayliss, Peter Marshall, Colin Richards, Alasdair Whittle
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 91, Nº 359, 2017, págs. 1171-1188
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Orkney is internationally recognised for its exceptionally well-preserved Neolithic archaeology. The chronology of the Orcadian Neolithic is, however, relatively poorly defined. The authors analysed a large body of radiocarbon and luminescence dates, formally modelled in a Bayesian framework, to address the timescape of Orkney's Late Neolithic. The resultant chronology for the period suggests differences in the trajectory of social change between the �core� (defined broadly as the World Heritage site) and the �periphery� beyond. Activity in the core appears to have declined markedly from c. 2800 cal BC, which, the authors suggest, resulted from unsustainable local political tensions and social concerns