BRITAIN B.C.: LIFE IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND BEFORE THE ROMANS
Written by Francis Pryor
Published by Harper Collins
in 2003
ISBN: 0007126921
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- IRELAND
- ARCHAEOLOGY
BRITAIN B.C.: LIFE IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND BEFORE THE ROMANS
Written by Francis Pryor.
Stock no. 1828070
Circa.
2003.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
An authoritative and radical re-examination of Britain and Ireland before the coming of the Romans. Brown cloth with gilt title to spine. Colour photos. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0007126921. Third printing. A ncie copy.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Text Illustrations and Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: British 'Peculiarity'
- Table: Dates and Periods
- PART I: Another Country
- 1 In the Beginning
- 2 Neanderthals, the Red 'Lady' and Ages of Ice
- 3 Hotting up: Hunters at the End of the Ice Age
- PART II: An Island People
- 4 After the Ice
- 5 DNA and the Adoption of Farming
- 6 The Earlier Neolithic (4200-3000BC)
- Part I: The Daily Round
- 7 The Earlier Neolithic (4200-3000BC)
- Part 2: Monuments and Pathways
- 8 The Archaeology of Death in the Neolithic
- PART III: The Tyranny of Technology
- 9 The Age of Stonehenge
- 10 Pathways to Paradise
- 11 Men of Iron
- 12 Glimpses of Vanished Ways
- Afterword: Britannia: A Province on the Fringes of the Empire
- Appendix: Places to Visit
- Notes
- Index