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

海洋软体动物的考古遗迹是一个关于史前社会的信息来源，但却没有得到充分利用。在苏格兰，对这些遗迹的研究在整个史前史中充其量是零星的，北方群岛在中石器时代之外大多被忽视。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，作为诱饵，作为工具，作为装饰和象征性的对象，并作为一种手段来看待从人类占领的最早证据到铁器时代晚期对海洋的态度变化。

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.