A hut on the hill : a multi-proxy microbotanical and micro-algae approach to a Pictish roundhouse floor at Cairnmore, Aberdeenshire

Acknowledgements Special thanks to Shanti Morell-Hart for her continued support and useful comments on earlier drafts of this article. Thank you to the editor and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments that greatly improved this article. This work is part of Shalen Prado’s doctoral research at McMaster University, carried out on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee and Mississauga First Nations, and funded by McMaster University’s Anthropology Department. Fieldwork at Cairnmore has been funded by the University of Aberdeen Development Trust, Historic Environment Scotland, and the Leverhulme Trust. The writing of this article was supported by a Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Award (RL-2016-466 069). Special thanks as well to Nadia Cavallin at the Royal Botanical Garden (Burlington) for providing modern plant samples which contributed to the McMaster Microbotanical Research Database and this study.Peer reviewedPostprin