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Author(s): Richard Bradley
ISBN(s): 9780521848114, 0521848113
Edition: 1st
File Details: PDF, 7.50 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0521848113 
ISBN 13: 9780521848114
Author: Richard Bradley

Sited at the furthest limits of the Neolithic revolution and standing at the confluence of the two great sea routes of prehistory, Britain and Ireland are distinct from continental Europe for much of the prehistoric sequence. In this landmark 2007 study – the first significant survey of the archaeology of Britain and Ireland for twenty years – Richard Bradley offers an interpretation of the unique archaeological record of these islands based on a wealth of current and largely unpublished data. Bradley surveys the entire archaeological sequence over a 4,000 year period, from the adoption of agriculture in the Neolithic period to the discovery of Britain and Ireland by travellers from the Mediterranean during the later pre-Roman Iron Age. Significantly, this is the first modern account to treat Britain and Ireland on equal terms, offering a detailed interpretation of the prehistory of both islands.

The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Offshore Islands
The View from Afar
The Importance of British and Irish Prehistory
The Sense of Isolation
The Lie of the Land
The Waterways
The Mental Map
Observing What Has Vanished
Chapter 2: A New Beginning
Two Models
Houses and Settlement Patterns
Beyond the House: Long Mounds and Mortuary Monuments
Beyond the House: Settlements, Bodies, and Tombs
Beyond the House: Cursus Monuments and Bank Barrows
Causewayed Enclosures
The Future: Cursuses, Round Barrows, and Circular Enclosures
The Past: Ancestors and Origins
Chapter 3: North and South
Time and Space
Houses and the Character of Settlement, 3300–2000 BC
Houses, Tombs, and Arenas: Ireland, Orkney, and Northern Britain
Across the Sea
The Later History of Henges
Making Connections
A World Elsewhere
Distance and Enchantment
Relations with the Dead
Monuments and the Settlement Pattern 2000–1500 BC
At the Limits
Chapter 4: Ploughshares into Swords
Period Details
Characterising a Later Bronze Age
The Initial Transformation: The Middle Bronze Age (1500–1100 BC)
Subsequent Developments: The Late Bronze Age (1100–800 BC)
Summary: Production, Alliance and Exchange
Chapter 5: The End of Prehistory
Foreground and Background
From Possession to Dispossession
Houses and Enclosures
The Organisation of the Land
Variations on an Original Theme
An End of Isolation
Summary
The End of Prehistory

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