@article{2994bd28721c4bde87a28d1432eec606,
title = "Containment, closure and red deer: A Late Neolithic butchery site at Skaill Bay, Mainland, Orkney",
abstract = "Erosion of sand dunes in the Bay of Skaill, close to the Neolithic site at Skara Brae, exposed a spread of faunal remains and stone tools representing a Late Neolithic butchery site separated by a wall from a deposit of articulated red deer bone. This is an unusual and significant bone assemblage comprising both fragmented and articulated remains of red deer together with some domesticates. Also a whale mandible was closely associated with the butchery area. An interpretation of the site incorporates a reappraisal of the role of red deer and cattle elsewhere in Late Neolithic Orkney.",
keywords = "Neolithic Orkney",
author = "Colin Richards and Ann Clarke and Clare Ingrem and Jaqui Mulville and Ingrid Mainland",
note = "Funding Information: Moira Greig would like to thank fellow contributors, especially Sue Anderson for arranging the above reports. She would also like to thank Hilary Murray and Lecky Shepherd for help with illustrations 1 and 2; the late Ian Shepherd and Ian Ralston for their assistance and support and arranging for Jacqueline McKinley to study the human bones; finally special thanks to the Aberdeenshire Council Archaeology Service for financial assistance towards publication costs. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2016 rests with the Society and the individual authors.",
year = "2016",
month = aug,
day = "1",
doi = "10.5284/1000184",
language = "English",
volume = "145",
pages = "91--124",
journal = "Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland",
issn = "0081-1564",
publisher = "Society of Antiquaries of Scotland",
}