Sir Barry Cunliffe (Uni Emeritus Professor of European Archaeology

Gebundenes Buch

On the Ocean

The Mediterranean and the Atlantic from Prehistory to AD 1500

Beschreibung

The story of the contest between humans and the sea, played out in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from early prehistory until AD 1500.

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), The Druids: A Very Short Introduction (2010), Britain Begins (2012), and By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean (2015), all published by Oxford University Press. He received a knighthood in 2006.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 194mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1544g
• ISBN-13: 9780198757894
• ISBN-10: 0198757891
• Artikelnr.: 48024012