Scotland Before the Scots: Being the Rhind Lectures for 1944

ISBN-13: 9781032070285 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 166 str.

V. Gordon Childe

Opis

Originally published in 1946, this book presents in what can arguably be described as an unusual way, a slice of Scottish social life by applying to prehistory the principles of Marxism as practised by Soviet scholars of Russian prehistory.

Spis treści

1. Classification of the Data 2. Stone Age Societies 3. The Early Bronze Age 4. The Heroic Age 5. The Late Bronze Age 6. The Celtic Iron Age. Appendices: 1. The Typology of Chambered Cairns and Their Contents 2. Typology of Beakers 3. Recumbent Stone Circles 4. Classification of Food Vessels 5. Extended Burials and Chieftain’s Graves of Stage 4. 6. List of Dagger Graves 7. Typology of Bronzes 8 Cinerary Urbs and Their Contents 9. Absolute Chronology 10. Bronze Age Graves in Orkney and Shetland 11. List of Gallic and Vitrified Forts 12. List of Abbreviations.

O autorze

V. Gordon Childe