Britain Bc Life In Britain And Ireland Before The Romans 1st Edition Francis Pryor by Francis Pryor 9780007126934, 000712693X instant download after payment.

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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. 

CONTENTS

Preface: British “Peculiarity 1

Table: Dates & Periods 1

PART I: Another Country 1

1 In the Beginning 3

2 Neanderthals, the Red "Lady" & Ages of Ice 31

3 Hotting up: Hunters at the End of the Ice Age 57

PART II: An Island People 77

4 After the Ice 79

5 DNA & the Adoption of Farming 107

6 The Earlier Neolithic (4200-3000 BC). Part 1: The Daily Round 134

7 The Earlier Neolithic (4200-3000 BC). Part 2: Monuments, & Pathways 162

8 The Archaeology of Death in the Neolithic 190

PART III: The Tyranny of Technology 227

9 The Age of Stonehenge (the Final Neolithic & Earliest Bronze Age: 2500-1800 BC) 229

10 Pathways to Paradise (the Mid- & Later Bronze Age: 1800-700 BC) 270

11 Men of Iron (the Early Iron Age: 700-150 BC) 320

12 Glimpses of Vanished Ways (the Later Iron Age: 200 BC—AD 43, & After) 368

Afterword: Britannia: A Province on the Fringes of the Empire 429

Appendix: Places to Visit 441