The Oxford illustrated prehistory of Europe

Book 1994

When a melting Swiss glacier recently revealed the body of a hunter millenia old, the world sat up and took notice. Here, in his well-preserved arrows, tools, and leather garments (not to mention his own remains) was a rare glimpse of life in prehistoric Europe, and it captured the public imagination. Elsewhere more obvious remnants of the pre-classical past have long been objects of fascination: the megaliths of northwestern Europe, the palaces...

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Antiquities, Prehistoric Europe

Europe Antiquities

Prehistoric peoples Europe

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ISBN:

9780198143857
0198143850

Description:

ix, 532 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

The peopling of Europe, 700,000-40,000 years before the present / Clive Gamble
The Upper Palaeolithic revolution / Paul Mellars
The Mesolithic Age / Steven J. Mithen
The first farmers / Alasdair Whittle
The transformation of early agrarian Europe : the later Neolithic and Copper Ages, 4500-2500 BC / Andrew Sherratt
The palace civilizations of Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece, 2000-1200 BC / K.A. Wardle
The emergence of élites : earlier Bronze Age Europe, 2500-1300 BC / Andrew Sherratt
The collapse of Aegean civilization at the end of the late Bronze Age / Mervyn Popham
Reformation in barbarian Europe, 1300-600 BC / Anthony Harding
Iron Age societies in Western Europe and beyond, 800-140 BC / Barry Cunliffe
Thracians, Scythians, and Dacians, 800 BC-AD 300 / Timothy Taylor
The impact of Rome on barbarian society, 140 BC-AD 300 / Barry Cunliffe
Barbarian Europe, AD 300-700 / Malcolm Todd

LCCN:

93049342

Control Number:

49801

Other Authors:

Cunliffe, Barry W

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