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ANCIENT EUROPE
archaeological synthesis
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Author_Stuart Piggott
Barbarian Europe
Bronze Age technology
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CELTIC WORLD
Chambered Tomb
Early Celtic Art
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european
European prehistory
Gold Cup
gur
Hallstatt Culture
Indo-European migration
IOI
Irish Hero Tales
La Tene
La Tene Culture
Late La Tene
Linear Pottery
Long Houses
Los Millares
lough
Megalithic Chambered Tomb
Middle La Tene
Murus Gallicus
Neolithic societies
Non-literate Societies
Nonliterate Societies
north
Olduvai Gorge
plain
prehistoric agriculture
Rhind Lectures
russian
scythian
Shaft Hole Axes
south
tene
transmission of ancient technologies
Urnfield Culture
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780202309392
- Weight: 725g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book interprets the main lines of European prehistory from the first agricultural communities in the sixth or even seventh millennium B.C. until the incorporation of much of barbarian Europe within the Roman Empire. It traces the beginnings of animal domestication and plant cultivation in ancient Western Asia, and the transmission of these skills by movements of peoples or by assimilation, in the European continent. The early technology of working in copper, and later in bronze, is discussed. Metal winning and working, and trade in raw materials and finished products, brought social and political repercussions to barbarian and civilised peoples alike.The spread of the Indo-European languages is considered in its archaeological context, as is the formation of the Celtic peoples, soon to acquire iron technology and to become the main barbarian component in Europe, side-by-side with the civilised Mediterranean societies, Greek, Etruscan or Roman. The later Celtic world of Europe and the British Isles is examined, and an attempt made to estimate the contribution of the older barbarian world to the Europe, which emerged from the ruins of the Roman Empire, geographically, the book ranges over the whole European field, from the Atlantic shores to the Urals and the Caucasus. While it does not pretend to be a prehistory of Europe within the period chosen, the book does bring together and discuss for the first time much scattered and often little-known archaeological evidence.This book is organized in a manner that will permit it being read on two levels. For the general non-specialist reader, the text and illustrations should give a sufficient idea of the nature of the theme and of the evidence, and of the development of the barbarian cultures side-by-side with the civilizations of antiquity, as their precursors and their subsequent counterparts. For the archaeological student however the text is documented with rather full references and notes at the end of each chapter, and a select bibliography, which should facilitate access to the original sources.
Stuart Piggott Teacher/Lecturer of later European prehistory to Honours Students in Archaeology in the University of Edinburgh since 1946.
