Life on the Edge: Human Settlement and Marginality: 13

This is a great reading copy, with clean and bright pages throughout. There is light discolouration on the front and back covers, alongside minor creasing to the front cover, but the book remains easily readable. Throughout history some areas have been less attractive for living and farming than others. These areas are identified as marginal because of environmental, economic or socio-political factors. How can we recognise marginality in the archaeological record? How particularly can environmental remains be interpreted? And how can we interpret human strategies when faced with a marginal environment? Most of the papers in this volume focus on Scottish contexts, reflecting their origins at.