Stuart Piggott

The Neolithic Cultures of the British Isles

A Study of the Stone-Using Agricultural Communities of Britain in the Second Millenium BC

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Produktbeschreibung

An outline of the continental background of the British neolithic cultures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9780521105026
• ISBN-10: 0521105021
• Artikelnr.: 25853344

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Natural and Human Background of Neolithic Settlement in the British
Isles; 2. The Sites and Monuments of the Windmill Hill Culture; 3. The
Material Equipment, Origins and Relationships of the Windmill Hill Culture;
4. The Expansion of the Windmill Hill Culture; 5. The Neolithic
Colonization of the West and North: Chambered Tombs and their Builders; 6.
The Clyde-Carlingford Culture in Western Scotland and Northern Ireland; 7.
Passage-grave Builders in Ireland: The Boyne Culture; 8. The Colonization
of the Highlands and Islands: Chambered-tomb Builders in the Hebridean and
Orkney-Cromarty Regions; 9. Miscellaneous Chambered-tomb Groups and Other
Related Sites in the British Isles; 10. The Secondary Neolithic Cultures:
The Flint and Stone Industries; 11. The Regional Communities of the
Secondary Neolithic Cultures; 12. The Content, Relationships, and
Chronology of the British Neolithic Cultures.