George Eogan, Michael Herity

Ireland in Prehistory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

There is a vast difference between the view of Irish prehistory that was held half a century ago and the perspective that is now presented in this work. Now available in paperback, the authors examine Irish prehistory from the sociological, economic and artistic viewpoints which brought about changes in this period enabling the ordinary reader, as well as the student, to comprehend the vast amount of archaeological work that has been accomplished in Ireland over the last twenty years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 189mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9780415048897
• ISBN-10: 0415048893
• Artikelnr.: 21851654

Autorenporträt

George Eogan, Mr George Eogan, Michael Herity

Inhaltsangabe

1: The Background, Geographical and Historical
2: Stone Age Beginnings: Hunter-Fishers and First Farmers
3: The Boyne Culture: Passage Grave Builders in Ireland and Britain
4: Late Neolithic: Single Burials, New Technology and First Central European Contacts
5: Beaker Peoples and the Beginnings of a New Society
6: Food Vessel People: Consolidation of the Single Grave Culture
7: Urn People: Further Arrivals and New Developments
8: Industrial Changes Late Second-Early First Millennia
9: Final Bronze Age Society
10: Later Prehistoric Events: The Iron Age and the Celts
11: Retrospect