Recommendations for future work would include:
- Further study of the social context of craft production, including how different materials relate (and within a landscape context), and exploring biographical approaches
- Development of innovative methods of prospecting, sourcing and compositional analysis, and combination of approaches including: experimental archaeology; the environmental context; metal detecting; aerial photographs
- Further study of the LBA-EIA transition through material culture
- Further work on how best to design and harness programmes of experimental archaeology
- Nuanced regional studies to address whether there are broadly Scotland-wide phenomena, or a series of overlapping regional Bronze Ages
- Improve chronological resolution for MBA and LBA ceramics
- Development of new techniques (including nano-techniques) in order to obtain enriched data-sets to provide the material to answer a range of questions regarding Bronze Age society
- Development of new approaches and new ways of using existing data.