Ireland in Prehistory

The authors examine Irish prehistory from the economic, sociological and artistic viewpoints enabling the reader to comprehend the vast amount of archaeological work accomplished in Ireland over the last twenty years.

Autorentext

George Eogan, Mr George Eogan, Michael Herity

Inhalt

1: The Background, Geographical and Historical; 2: Stone Age Beginnings: Hunter-Fishers and First Farmers; 3: The Boyne Culture: Passage Grave Builders in Ireland and Britain; 4: Late Neolithic: Single Burials, New Technology and First Central European Contacts; 5: Beaker Peoples and the Beginnings of a New Society; 6: Food Vessel People: Consolidation of the Single Grave Culture; 7: Urn People: Further Arrivals and New Developments; 8: Industrial Changes Late Second-Early First Millennia; 9: Final Bronze Age Society; 10: Later Prehistoric Events: The Iron Age and the Celts; 11: Retrospect