1. The Warren Field Project: place and context 1.1 Background to the excavation 1.2 Geomorphic setting( Richard Tipping ) 2. A line in the landscape: the pit alignment circa 8210-3650 cal BC 2.1 The excavated evidence( Hilary Murray and Charles Murray ) 2.2 Palaeoenvironmental synthesis ( Stephen Lancaster with Althea Davies, Mhairi Hastie, Robert McCulloch, Catherine Smith, Scott Timpany and Richard Tipping ) 2.3 Discussion of the pit alignment( Hilary Murray and Shannon Fraser ) 3.

A new kind of place: the timber hall circa 3820-3690 cal BC 3.1 The excavated evidence( Hilary Murray and Charles Murray ) 3.2 Palaeoenvironmental synthesis ( Stephen Lancaster with Althea Davies, Mhairi Hastie, Robert McCulloch, Catherine Smith, Scott Timpany and Richard Tipping )3.3 Discussion of the structure ( Hilary Murray and Charles Murray ) 3.4 The timber hall and the emergence of new ways of living( Shannon Fraser ) 3.5 Biographies of people and place( Shannon Fraser ) 4. The local context: other sites on the Crathes Castle Estate <4.1 Other features in the Warren Field ( Hilary Murray and Charles Murray ) 4.

2 Neolithic features on the Crathes Castle Overflow Car Park site ( Hilary Murray and Charles Murray ) 5. Radiocarbon dating 5.1 The radiocarbon dating of the pit alignment and the timber hall ( Peter Marshall ) 6. The finds 6.1 The pottery ( Alison Sheridan ) 6.2 Organic residue analysis of pottery samples from Warren Field timber hall and the Crathes Castle Overflow Car Park site Lucija Soberl and Richard Evershed) 6.3 Stone tools ( Graeme Warren with Brian Dolan ) 6.4 A possible carbonised wooden bowl ( Anne Crone ) Epilogue Appendices.