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The Struggle Within: Challenging the Subject/Object Relationship on a Shoestring

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The above quote is taken from the Metallica song The Struggle Within, taken from their self-titled album.

*The ATP has emerged from the collective efforts of a wide range of students and researchers, too many to credit as joint authors. However, we list the most significant contributors to this paper here in alphabetical order: Hannah Cobb, Alistair Curtis, Héléna Gray, Oliver Harris, Gemma Midlane, Paul Murtagh, Phil Richardson and Eleanor Rowley-Conwy.

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The Ardnamurchan Transitions Project would like to thank the Ardnamurchan Estate and Historic Scotland for permission to conduct work in Swordle Bay. We also gratefully acknowledge The Leverhulme Trust, The British Academy, The Prehistoric Society, The Russell Trust, The Council for British Archaeology, the Glasgow Archaeological Society, The Royal Archaeological Institute, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and the Universities of Manchester and Newcastle, without whose funding this project would not have been possible. We would also like to thank all those who have participated in the project so far.

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Members of the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project. (2012). The Struggle Within: Challenging the Subject/Object Relationship on a Shoestring. In: Cobb, H., Harris, O., Jones, C., Richardson, P. (eds) Reconsidering Archaeological Fieldwork. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2338-6_8

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