Barry Cunliffe (Univers Emeritus Professor of European Archaeology

Broschiertes Buch

Britain Begins

Beschreibung

The story of the origins of the British and the Irish peoples, from the end of the last Ice Age around 10,000BC to the eve of the Norman Conquest - who they were, where they came from, and how they related to one another.

Autor

Barry Cunliffe taught archaeology in the Universities of Bristol and Southampton and was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2008, thereafter becoming Emeritus Professor. He has excavated widely in Britain (Fishbourne, Bath, Danebury, Hengistbury Head, Brading) and in the Channel Islands, Brittany, and Spain, and has been President of the Council for British Archaeology and of the Society of Antiquaries, a Governor of the Museum of London, and a Trustee of the British Museum. He is currently a Commissioner of English Heritage. His many publications include The Ancient Celts (1997), Facing the Ocean (2001), and The Druids: A Very Short Introduction (2010), all also published by Oxford University Press. He received a knighthood in 2006.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 192mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1216g
• ISBN-13: 9780199679454
• ISBN-10: 0199679452
• Artikelnr.: 38028282