ABSTRACT
CCOTLAND is the 29,000 square miles of British soil that ^ lies north of the Cheviots. She is essentially a part of Britain, and the prehistoric cultures to be described in this volume bear an insular, British stamp. Yet it must be insisted at the outset that Scotland is not an arbitrary political division but possesses, to use Dr. Fox’s 1 happy term, a personality of her own. Though most of the cultural developments to be traced here find their closest analogies south of the Border and can best be defined in the terms current among English prehistorians, results, well grounded in Southern England, can be applied to Scotland only with reservations. The latter are largely conditioned by the geographical idiosyncrasies of the region, and these must accordingly be outlined here.
