Scotland in the Early Middle Ages to be adopted for house building, often combining layers of stone with turf. Place-name evidence, particularly the use of the prefix "pit", meaning land or a field, suggests that the heaviest areas of Pictish settlement were in modern Fife, Perthshire, Angus, Aberdeen and around the Moray Firth, although later Gaelic migration may have erased some Pictish names from the record. Early Gaelic settlement appears to have been in the regions of the western mainland of Scotland between Cowal and Ardnamurchan, and the adjacent islands, later extending up the West coast in the 8th century. There is place name and archaeological
Anne Firth Murray The Unjust and Unhealthy Situation of Women in Poorer Countries and What They Are Doing About It." Anne Firth Murray Anne Firth Murray (born June 23, 1935, in Wanganui, New Zealand) is an activist, author, teacher at Stanford University, and nonprofit founder. Murray is the founding president of the Global Fund for Women, which raises and gives away money to groups around the world supporting women's human rights. She founded the organization in 1987 and continued to act as president until 1996. She previously led philanthropic efforts on population and environmental issues for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation from