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Link: The significance of red deer in prehistory

Thursday, May 13, 2021 (9:10 AM)

Red deer stag. (Isiwal/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
Red deer stag. (📷 Isiwal/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

A link to a new article, Connecting the Edges: The Call of the Wild, by Kath Page, a postgraduate MLitt Archaeology Studies student at the UHI Archaeology Institute.

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