Type
Indoor meeting
at the Angela Marmont Centre, Natural History Museum
11:00: Exhibits and demonstrations
13:00: Lunch break
14:00: Talk by Matt Law and Nigel Thew: Snails, sand and archaeology in the Outer Hebrides
The western coast of the Outer Hebrides is dominated by a low-lying plain of windblown sand, known as the machair. This provides fertile soils in an otherwise acidic landscape. These sands started to accumulate late in the second millennium BC, and became the focus of human settlement on the islands. This talk explores how snails have been used to explore past human activities and cultural changes, as well as describing an emerging picture of the recent history of molluscs in the Outer Hebrides.
Please bring plenty of exhibits and demonstration material; and feel free to bring specimens of any Molluscs for identification. Binocular microscopes will be available if needed.
Organiser
Bas Payne
Organisation
Conchological Society