An authoritative and radical rethinking of the history of Ancient Britain and Ancient Ireland, based on remarkable new archaeological finds.
British history is traditionally regarded as having started with the Roman Conquest. But this is to ignore half a million years of prehistory that still exert a profound influence. Here Francis Pryor examines the great ceremonial landscapes of Ancient Britain and Ireland – Stonehenge, Seahenge, Avebury and the Bend of the Boyne – as well as the discarded artefacts of day-to-day life, to create an astonishing portrait of our ancestors.
This major re-revaluation of pre-Roman Britain, made possible in part by aerial photography and coastal erosion, reveals a much more sophisticated life in Ancient Britain and Ireland than has previously been supposed.
This edition does not include illustrations.
Author(s): Francis Pryor
Edition: 8th
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Year: 2010
Language: English
Commentary: (Text Only)
Pages: 544
City: London
Tags: Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Great Britain; Prehistoric peoples -- Great Britain; Prehistoric peoples -- Ireland; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- History -- To 55 B.C; Great Britain -- Antiquities; Ireland -- Antiquities
Title Page
Dedication
Preface
Dates and Periods
Part I: Another Country
Chapter One: In the Beginning
Chapter Two: Neanderthals, the Red ‘Lady’ and Ages of Ice
Chapter Three: Hotting up: Hunters at the End of the Ice Age
Part II: An Island People
Chapter Four: After the Ice
Chapter Five: DNA and the Adoption of Farming
Chapter Six: The Earlier Neolithic (4200-3000 BC)
Chapter Seven: The Earlier Neolithic (4200-3000 BC)
Chapter Eight: The Archaeology of Death in the Neolithic
Part III: The Tyranny of Technology
Chapter Nine: The Age of Stonehenge (the Final Neolithic and Earliest Bronze Age: 2500-1800
BC)
Chapter Ten: Pathways to Paradise (the Mid- and Later Bronze Age: 1800-700 BC)
Chapter Eleven: Men of Iron (the Early Iron Age: 700-150 BC)
Chapter Twelve: Glimpses of Vanished Ways (the Later Iron Age: 200 BC-AD 43, and After)
Afterword
Places to Visit
Notes
Index
P.S. Ideas, interviews & features…
About the author
Portrait
Snapshot
Top Ten Favourite Books
About the book
A Visit to Flag Fen
A Critical Eye
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Acknowledgements
About the Author
Praise
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Copyright
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