Description: This book looks at the evolution of rural settlement in Scotland from the Mesolithic period through to the improving movement of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Review Quotes: 'Imaginative use of new findings and hypothetical modeling in archaeology and history makes this an exercise in forensic fieldwork and documentary analysis to advance a particular thesis...Turnock has made a major contribution to the clarification of 'the enigma of Scotland's settlement history.' Choice