Ancient Europe

ISBN-13: 9780202309392 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 416 str.

Stuart Piggott

Opis

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

Spis treści

I BACKGROUND OF THE ENQUIRY 2 THE EARLIEST AGRICULTURALISTS 3 TRADE, METAL- WORKING AND CONSOLIDATION 4 CLIMAX AND CHANGE 5 NEW TECHNIQUES AND PEOPLES. THE CELTIC WORLD AND ITS AFTERMATH

O autorze

Stuart Piggott Teacher/Lecturer of later European prehistory to Honours Students in Archaeology in the University of Edinburgh since 1946.