Alexandra N Shepherd
Biographic Data
| ID | 228124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra N Shepherd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra N |
| FAMILY NAME | Shepherd |
| SIGNATURE | SHEPHERD A N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Scotland's first farmers: New insights into early farming practices in North-west Europe
Thirty years after the discovery of an Early Neolithic timber hall at Balbridie in Scotland was reported in Antiquity , new analysis of the site's archaeobotanical assemblage, featuring 20 000 cereal grains preserved when the building burnt down in the early fourth millennium BC, provides new insights into early farming practices. The results of stable isotope analyses of cereals from Balbridie, alongside archaeobotanical and stable isotope resul…
Combined visual and biochemical analyses confirm depositor and diet for Neolithic coprolites from Skara Brae
Coprolites (fossilized faeces) can provide valuable insights into species' diet and related habits. In archaeozoological contexts, they are a potential source of information on human-animal interactions as well as human and animal subsistence. However, despite a broad discussion on coprolites in archaeology, such finds are rarely subject to detailed examination by researchers, perhaps due to the destructive nature of traditional analytical method…
Characterizing anthropic sediments in north European Neolithic settlements: An assessment from Skara Brae, Orkney
The creation of anthropic sediments, traditionally referred to under the blanket term midden, through the utilization of settlement waste materials in domestic settlement construction was first recognized during early excavations at the Orcadian Neolithic site of Skara Brae (V.G. Childe, 1931a; 1931b). Prior to the present study there has been no systematic attempt to identify the nature of these sediments at Skara Brae, whose likely occupation d…
A Cordoned Urn burial with faience from 102 Findhorn, Moray
Report on the discovery of a large Cordoned Urn containing the cremated remains of an adult female and a neonate or foetal infant. The urn also contained twenty-two mostly fragmentary segmented beads and one star-shaped bead, all faience. The urn had been inverted in a pit and pyre debris placed over the upper fill of the pit. This deposit contained a further two faience beads, one star-shaped and incomplete, the other quoit-shaped, and a small c…
A Neolithic ring-mound at Midtown of Pitglassie, Auchterless, Aberdeenshire
In Autumn 1978, excavation took place on a small round mound at Midtown of Pitglassie where digging in the 1950s had produced Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery and lithics. The excavation was organized by the Ancient Monuments Inspectorate of the Department of the Environment, now Historic Scotland, with whose assistance this report is published. The excavation revealed an original annular mound, composed of circular banks of stone, earth and turf…
A beaker cist at Chapelden, Tore of Troup, Aberdour, Banff and Buchan District, with a note on the orientation of beaker burials in north-east Scotland
The burial of an adult male accompanied by a complete N4/Step ?4 beaker within the cist and sherds of an indeterminate beaker on the capstone is described. A review of the evidence suggests that the same beaker burial pattern existed in north-east Scotland as has been observed in east Yorkshire
A grain storage pit of the pre-Improvement period at Inchkeil, Duffus, Moray
A circular clay and stone-lined pit contained grain, chiefly carbonized oats, which yielded a radiocarbon date in the 16th century. AR
Excavations at Kintore Roman temporary camp, 1984
This paper describes the excavation of a section through the ditch of the Roman temporary camp at Kintore, Gordon District, Grampian and of a possible field oven in the interior of the camp
A Beaker burial at Mains of Balnagowan, Ardersier, Inverness District
An incised Pictish figure and a new symbol stone from Barflat, Rhynie, Gordon District
NJ 497263. Ploughing uncovered a large unbroken stone bearing the incised profile of a bearded man, in long tunic and headdress, carrying an axe; comparisons are made with Golspie and Glamis examples. A fragment from the same field bears the Pictish beast and comb symbols and part of an S-shaped figure. A R
Characterizing anthropic sediments in north European Neolithic settlements: An assessment from Skara Brae, Orkney
The creation of anthropic sediments, traditionally referred to under the blanket term midden, through the utilization of settlement waste materials in domestic settlement construction was first recognized during early excavations at the Orcadian Neolithic site of Skara Brae (V.G. Childe, 1931a; 1931b). Prior to the present study there has been no systematic attempt to identify the nature of these sediments at Skara Brae, whose likely occupation d…
Scotland's first farmers: New insights into early farming practices in North-west Europe
Thirty years after the discovery of an Early Neolithic timber hall at Balbridie in Scotland was reported in Antiquity , new analysis of the site's archaeobotanical assemblage, featuring 20 000 cereal grains preserved when the building burnt down in the early fourth millennium BC, provides new insights into early farming practices. The results of stable isotope analyses of cereals from Balbridie, alongside archaeobotanical and stable isotope resul…
Combined visual and biochemical analyses confirm depositor and diet for Neolithic coprolites from Skara Brae
Coprolites (fossilized faeces) can provide valuable insights into species' diet and related habits. In archaeozoological contexts, they are a potential source of information on human-animal interactions as well as human and animal subsistence. However, despite a broad discussion on coprolites in archaeology, such finds are rarely subject to detailed examination by researchers, perhaps due to the destructive nature of traditional analytical method…
A Cordoned Urn burial with faience from 102 Findhorn, Moray
Report on the discovery of a large Cordoned Urn containing the cremated remains of an adult female and a neonate or foetal infant. The urn also contained twenty-two mostly fragmentary segmented beads and one star-shaped bead, all faience. The urn had been inverted in a pit and pyre debris placed over the upper fill of the pit. This deposit contained a further two faience beads, one star-shaped and incomplete, the other quoit-shaped, and a small c…
A Neolithic ring-mound at Midtown of Pitglassie, Auchterless, Aberdeenshire
In Autumn 1978, excavation took place on a small round mound at Midtown of Pitglassie where digging in the 1950s had produced Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery and lithics. The excavation was organized by the Ancient Monuments Inspectorate of the Department of the Environment, now Historic Scotland, with whose assistance this report is published. The excavation revealed an original annular mound, composed of circular banks of stone, earth and turf…
A Beaker burial at Mains of Balnagowan, Ardersier, Inverness District
An incised Pictish figure and a new symbol stone from Barflat, Rhynie, Gordon District
NJ 497263. Ploughing uncovered a large unbroken stone bearing the incised profile of a bearded man, in long tunic and headdress, carrying an axe; comparisons are made with Golspie and Glamis examples. A fragment from the same field bears the Pictish beast and comb symbols and part of an S-shaped figure. A R
An incised Pictish figure and a new symbol stone from Barflat, Rhynie, Gordon District
NJ 497263. Ploughing uncovered a large unbroken stone bearing the incised profile of a bearded man, in long tunic and headdress, carrying an axe; comparisons are made with Golspie and Glamis examples. A fragment from the same field bears the Pictish beast and comb symbols and part of an S-shaped figure. A R
A Beaker burial at Mains of Balnagowan, Ardersier, Inverness District
Excavations at Kintore Roman temporary camp, 1984
This paper describes the excavation of a section through the ditch of the Roman temporary camp at Kintore, Gordon District, Grampian and of a possible field oven in the interior of the camp
A beaker cist at Chapelden, Tore of Troup, Aberdour, Banff and Buchan District, with a note on the orientation of beaker burials in north-east Scotland
The burial of an adult male accompanied by a complete N4/Step ?4 beaker within the cist and sherds of an indeterminate beaker on the capstone is described. A review of the evidence suggests that the same beaker burial pattern existed in north-east Scotland as has been observed in east Yorkshire
A grain storage pit of the pre-Improvement period at Inchkeil, Duffus, Moray
A circular clay and stone-lined pit contained grain, chiefly carbonized oats, which yielded a radiocarbon date in the 16th century. AR
A Neolithic ring-mound at Midtown of Pitglassie, Auchterless, Aberdeenshire
In Autumn 1978, excavation took place on a small round mound at Midtown of Pitglassie where digging in the 1950s had produced Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery and lithics. The excavation was organized by the Ancient Monuments Inspectorate of the Department of the Environment, now Historic Scotland, with whose assistance this report is published. The excavation revealed an original annular mound, composed of circular banks of stone, earth and turf…
A Cordoned Urn burial with faience from 102 Findhorn, Moray
Report on the discovery of a large Cordoned Urn containing the cremated remains of an adult female and a neonate or foetal infant. The urn also contained twenty-two mostly fragmentary segmented beads and one star-shaped bead, all faience. The urn had been inverted in a pit and pyre debris placed over the upper fill of the pit. This deposit contained a further two faience beads, one star-shaped and incomplete, the other quoit-shaped, and a small c…
Characterizing anthropic sediments in north European Neolithic settlements: An assessment from Skara Brae, Orkney
The creation of anthropic sediments, traditionally referred to under the blanket term midden, through the utilization of settlement waste materials in domestic settlement construction was first recognized during early excavations at the Orcadian Neolithic site of Skara Brae (V.G. Childe, 1931a; 1931b). Prior to the present study there has been no systematic attempt to identify the nature of these sediments at Skara Brae, whose likely occupation d…
Combined visual and biochemical analyses confirm depositor and diet for Neolithic coprolites from Skara Brae
Coprolites (fossilized faeces) can provide valuable insights into species' diet and related habits. In archaeozoological contexts, they are a potential source of information on human-animal interactions as well as human and animal subsistence. However, despite a broad discussion on coprolites in archaeology, such finds are rarely subject to detailed examination by researchers, perhaps due to the destructive nature of traditional analytical method…
Scotland's first farmers: New insights into early farming practices in North-west Europe
Thirty years after the discovery of an Early Neolithic timber hall at Balbridie in Scotland was reported in Antiquity , new analysis of the site's archaeobotanical assemblage, featuring 20 000 cereal grains preserved when the building burnt down in the early fourth millennium BC, provides new insights into early farming practices. The results of stable isotope analyses of cereals from Balbridie, alongside archaeobotanical and stable isotope resul…
Archaeology (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Geology (5 works) · Geology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Beaker (3 works) · Excavation (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works)