Table of Contents

1. Introduction: the Study of Island Societies (J.H. Barrett)
2. Viking Age and Medieval Orkney (J.H. Barrett)
3. Quoygrew and its Landscape Context (J.H. Barrett, L.R. Farr, D. Redhouse, S. Richer, J. Zimmermann, L. Sharpe, S. Ovenden, J. Moore, T. Poller, K.B. Milek, I.A. Simpson, M. Smith, B. Gourley & T. O’Connor)
4. The Quoygrew Sequence (J.H. Barrett & J.F. Gerrard)
5. Ecofact Recovery and Patterns of Deposition (J.H. Barrett & J.F. Harland)
6. The Maritime Economy: Mollusc Shell (N. Milner & J.H. Barrett)
7. The Maritime Economy: Fish Bone (J.F. Harland & J.H. Barrett)
8. Animal Husbandry: the Mammal Bone (J.F. Harland)
9. Fowling: the Bird Bone (J.F. Harland, R.A. Bennett, J.I. Andrews, T. O’Connor & J.H. Barrett)
10. Arable Agriculture and Gathering: the Botanical Evidence (C.T. Adams, S.L. Poaps & J.P. Huntley)
11. Feeding the Livestock: the Stable Isotope Evidence (J.H. Barrett & M.P. Richards)
12. Local Availability and Long-range Trade: the Worked Stone Assemblage (C.E. Batey, A.K. Forster, R.E. Jones, G. Gaunt, F.J. Breckenridge, J. Bunbury & J.H. Barrett)
13. Evidence of Exchange Networks: the Combs and other Worked Skeletal Material (S.P. Ashby with a contribution by C.E. Batey)
14. The Metal Finds and their Implications (N.S.H. Rogers, C.E. Batey, N.M.McQ. Holmes & J.H. Barrett)
15. Interpreting the Ceramics and Glass (D.W. Hall, L. Blackmore, G. Haggarty, S. Chenery, D. Gallagher, C.E. Batey & J.H. Barrett)
16. Being an Islander (J.H. Barrett)

Reviews

Overall, this monograph is an exemplary contribution to environmental archaeology in general, and to medieval North Atlantic studies in particular. -- David Griffiths Medieval Archaeology Vol. 57 (2013)