Marine mollusc exploitation in the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland) throughout prehistory

海洋软体动物的考古遗迹代表了一个未被充分利用的史前社会信息来源。在苏格兰，对这些史前遗迹的研究充其量只是零星的，而在中石器时代之外，北部群岛基本上被忽视了。这项研究将使用传统的形态学和测量分析来调查海洋软体动物作为食物、诱饵、工具、装饰品和装饰品的作用，并作为一种手段来观察从人类最早的居住证据到铁器时代晚期对海洋的态度的变化。

The archaeological remains of marine molluscs represent a hugely underutilised source of information about prehistoric societies. Within Scotland, studies of these remains are patchy at best throughout prehistory, with the Northern Isles being mostly ignored outside of the Mesolithic period. This research would use traditional morphological and metrical analyses to investigate marine molluscs as food, as bait, as tools, as decorative and symbolic objects, and as a means to look at changing attitudes towards the sea from the earliest evidence of human occupation through to the late Iron Age.