Britain begins
The story of the origins of the British and the Irish peoples, from the end of the last Ice Age around 10,000 BC to the eve of the Norman Conquest - who they were, where they came from, and how they related to one another. "The ancient Celts believed they were descended from Father Dis (Dis Pater), a god of the dead who resided in the west where the sun set. Today, ideas of our prehistoric origins are more likely based on ocean core samples, radio-carbon dating, and archeological artifacts. Bu…
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- Full title :Britain begins / Barry Cunliffe.
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The story of the origins of the British and the Irish peoples, from the end of the last Ice Age around 10,000 BC to the eve of the Norman Conquest - who they were, where they came from, and how they related to one another.
"The ancient Celts believed they were descended from Father Dis (Dis Pater), a god of the dead who resided in the west where the sun set. Today, ideas of our prehistoric origins are more likely based on ocean core samples, radio-carbon dating, and archeological artifacts. But as Barry Cunliffe reminds us in Britain Begins, an archaeologist writing of the past must be constantly aware that the past is, in truth, unknowable. Like the myth-making Celts, we too create stories about our origins, based on what we know today." --Publisher description.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2012.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 553 pages : : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199609338, 0199609330
- oclc:ocn828491885
- LC Classification:DA90
- Dewey Decimal:936.1
Table of Contents
1. In the beginning: myths and ancestors -- 2. Britain emerges: the stage is set -- 3. Interlude: enter the actors -- 4. Settlement begins: 10 000 -- 4200 BC -- 5. New people, new ideas, 4200 -- 3000 BC -- 6. Mobilizing materials: a new connectivity, 3000 -- 1500 BC -- 7. Interluide: Talking to each other -- 8. The productive land in the age of warriors, 1500 -- 800 BC -- 9. Episodes of cinflict, 800-60 BC -- 10. Interlude: Approaching the gods -- 11. Integration: the Roman episode, 60 BC -- AD 350 -- 12. "its red andsavage tongue'. AD 350-650 -- 13. The age of the Northmen, AD 600-1100 -- 14. Of myths and realities: an epilogue.
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