Life and Death in the Bronze Age: An Archaeologist's Field-Work

ISBN-13: 9781138817760 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str.

Cyril Fox

Opis

This is a great work by one of the pioneers of modern archaeology. The period covered is from 1700 to 700 B.C. and is mainly concerned with the author s field work in western Britain. It deals with burial ritual dances, processions, "houses of the dead," the objects deposited, the building of the barrow; and it shows by line drawings and photographs how scientific excavation nowadays is planned and executed.

The book gathers together an immense amount of research completed over a long span of years on burials and the ceremonial which attended them. Originally published in 1959."

Spis treści

Preface.  Introduction  1. A Barrow in North Wales – Neolithic-Bronze Age Transition, c. 1700 B.C., and Secondaries  2. a). Field Archaeology in West Wales, 1925-6  b). Pottery from Burials in West and North Wales, 1925-6  3. Barrow-Digging in West and South Wales – Early Bronze Age  4. The ‘Food-Vessel’ Phase of Culture in Britain  5. Composite (Earth and Stone) Barrows in Glamorgan – Early and Middle Bronze Age  6. Turf Barrows in South Wales – Middle and Late Bronze Age  7. Commentary

O autorze

Fox, Cyril