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- Title
Post-medieval settlement in the Isle of Lewis: a study in adaptability or change?
- Authors
Campbell, Stuart D.
- Abstract
While the work of historical geographers has produced a rich literature concerning medieval and later rural settlement in Scotland this body of work has frequently been used in an uncritical manner by those archaeologists who study the period, often to the exclusion of developing a suitable theoretical and methodological basis for archaeological research. However appropriate these models are for the 'big history' paradigms of the disciplines which generated them, they fail to address several issues which are key to the archaeologist. By way of contrast, this paper investigates the pre-crofting settlement of two areas of the Isle of Lewis to argue that to understand post-medieval settlement it is necessary to utilise both conventional archaeological survey and theoretical considerations of how societies interact and react to the particular environment in which they are placed.
- Subjects
LEWIS with Harris Island (Scotland); SCOTLAND; HISTORICAL geography; ARCHAEOLOGISTS; ARCHAEOLOGICAL surveying; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations
- Publication
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2009, Issue 139, p315
- ISSN
0081-1564
- Publication type
Article