Occasional Papers – serie

Despite over a century of archaeological research, including at many residential sites throughout most of Utah, the City Creek Site is the first Fremont village site to be explored in the Salt Lake Valley. This important and unique site provides foundational data that is used for a critical reexamination of previous interpretations about the long-misunderstood Great Salt Lake area Fremont. Using architecture, ceramics and other artifacts, stable carbon isotope, osteological, geoarchaeological, and climatological data, among others, it provides key insights into northern Fremont lifeways. Importantly, it helps to contextualize Great Salt Lake Fremont as a horticultural population, in contrast to contemporaneous non-Fremont foragers in the same region.

The notion of "freedom" has long been associated with a number of perceptions deemed fundamental to an understanding of Scotland and the Scots. Thus Scottish history is viewed, resistance to the Roman Empire, to the Wars of Independence against England, to the eighteenth-century Jacobite uprisings, to the birth of the Labour and Trade Union movements. Key Scottish texts have the concept of liberty at their core: the Declaration of Arbroath, Barbour's Brus, Blind Hary's Wallace, the poems of Robert Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid and the novels of Janice Galloway and Irvine Welsh. Scottish thinkers have written extensively on the philosophies of freedom, be it individual, economic, or religious. These essays examine the question of "freedom", its representations and its interpretations within the literatures of Scotland.