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Author : Neil Oliver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Bronze age
ISBN : 0753828863
This text presents a history of ancient Britain and the indelible marks which thousands of years of human civilization have made upon the landscape.
Author : Nick Ashton,Simon Lewis,Chris Stringer
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0444535985
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project (AHOB) funded by the Leverhulme Trust began in 2001 and brought together researchers from a range of disciplines with the aim of investigating the record of human presence in Britain from the earliest occupation until the end of the last Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago. Study of changes in climate, landscape and biota over the last million years provides the environmental backdrop to understanding human presence and absence together with the development of new technologies. This book brings together the multidisciplinary work of the project. The chapters present the results of new fieldwork and research on old sites from museum collections using an array of new analytical techniques. Features an up-to-date treatment of the record of human presence in the British Isles during the Palaeolithic period (700,000 - 10,000 years before present) Takes multidisciplinary approach that includes archaeology, geochemistry, geochronology, stratigraphy and sedimentology Coincides with the culmination of the AHOB project in 2010, providing a benchmark statement on the record of human occupation in Britain that can be utilized and tested by future research
Author : Alix Wood
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508146490
Travel back in time to ancient Britain, a region loaded with archaeological finds that have been instrumental in our understanding of the past. This volume explores ancient Britain’s most exciting archaeological digs and discoveries. Readers are introduced to this area’s history, characteristics, and importance, and then are treated to detailed text and full-color photographs of important artifacts. The text is organized chronologically, helping students track the development of this ancient civilization. A simple map, timeline, and fact boxes complete a comprehensive learning experience about ancient Britain’s fascinating archaeological history.
Author : Francis Thackeray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590972577
Author : Francis Thackeray
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368725921
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Author : Pam J. Crabtree
Publisher : Case Studies in Early Societie
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521885942
Traces the development of towns in Britain from late Roman times to the end of the Anglo-Saxon period using archaeological data.
Author : Neil Oliver
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780297867685
Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A History of Ancient Britain, much-loved historian Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain; on the first people to occupy these islands and their battle for survival. There has been human habitation in Britain, regularly interrupted by Ice Ages, for the best part of a million years. The last retreat of the glaciers 12,000 years ago brought a new and warmer age and with it, one of the greatest tsunamis recorded on Earth which struck the north-east of Britain, devastating the population and flooding the low-lying plains of what is now the North Sea. The resulting island became, in time, home to a diverse range of cultures and peoples who have left behind them some of the most extraordinary and enigmatic monuments in the world. Through what is revealed by the artefacts of the past, Neil Oliver weaves the epic story - half a million years of human history up to the departure of the Roman Empire in the Fifth Century AD. It was a period which accounts for more than ninety-nine per cent of humankind's presence on these islands. It is the real story of Britain and of her people.
Author : Adolf Michaelis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Collectors and collecting
ISBN : ONB:+Z271480001
Author : Mr James Dyer,James Dyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134745968
This book is for anyone starting out to understand the prehistoric life of Britain from the first human occupation 450,000 years ago, until the Roman conquest in AD 43. James Dyer here succeeds in bringing to life a thriving picture of the people and customs of the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages, based on the sometimes sparse clues presented by prehistoric archaeological sites across Britain. For many readers, Ancient Britain will provide the first chance to get to grips with the present state of our knowledge of prehistoric agriculture, settlement, trade and ritual. The rise of power, with the development of a class system at the hands of the first metal users, is charted through to the growth of wealth and the emergence of a warlike and advanced Iron Age society - a society that was nonetheless unable to withstand the might of Rome. With over 130 illustrations and photographs, including a number of specially drawn reconstructions, this highly visual book is an ideal primer for all students of prehistory and all those who are simply interested in the subject.
Author : Hugh Newman,Jim Vieira
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1948803542
Did giants really exist in the British Isles? Do the legends of them building Stonehenge hold any reality? Why does the establishment deny they ever existed? Hugh Newman and Jim Vieira, best selling authors of Giants On Record: America's Hidden History, Secrets in the Mounds and the Smithsonian Files (2015), and stars of History Channel's Search for the Lost Giants, investigate these claims and take a deep dive into obscure newspaper accounts, antiquarian diaries, archaeological reports, local history records, newly-translated ancient texts, academic papers, new scientific reports and written evidence from hundreds of sources going back over a 4,000-year period to uncover the truth. Over 250 accounts of the remains of giant human skeletons ranging from 7 feet to 21 feet have been found in the archaeological and historical record, often measured and commented on by famous scientists, scholars and writers at the time. A wealth of folklore from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland talks about sophisticated cultures of giants with supernatural powers and advanced technology who had control over thunder and lightning, as witnessed when their tombs were disturbed by later generations. They were often high kings and queens who were master geomancers, surveyors, architects and astronomers who ruled from their mountaintop fortresses--whilst others were cannibals with violent tendencies who enjoyed throwing gigantic rocks across the landscape! The authors take a close look at these age-old stories and the remarkable skeletal discoveries to reveal for the first time an important lost chapter of British history. Includes an 8-page color section.
Author : George H. Cooper
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596054134
Where is paradise located? George H. Cooper bold thesis in Ancient Britain is that the Biblical Eden is Salisbury Plain in England and that the streams of the Eden story in Genesis is the Avon River system in Wiltshire, England. He argues further that all the ancient stories regarding Eden and the doings of the gods revolve around the dramas enacted there by the ancient British, which culminated in the construction of the monolithic circles of Stonehenge. As evidence in support of this original thesis, Cooper discusses the monolithic structures of Britain, the Mounds of the Mississippi Valley, the relics of Mexico, and the Octimal Numeration invented by the author long before he had the slightest idea that it would become such a powerful factor in linking the religious culture of the East with the West. GEORGE H. COOPER also wrote Elementary Arithmetic of the Octimal Notatiion.
Author : Ilka Tampke
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925095319
For the people of Caer Cad, 'skin' is their totem, their greeting, their ancestors, their land Ailia does not have skin. Abandoned at birth, she serves the Tribequeen of her township. Ailia is not permitted to marry, excluded from tribal ceremonies and, most devastatingly, forbidden to learn. But the Mothers, the tribal ancestors, have chosen her for another path Lured by the beautiful and enigmatic Taliesin, Ailia embarks on an unsanctioned journey to attain the knowledge that will protect her people from the most terrifying invaders they have ever faced. Set in Iron-Age Britain on the cusp of Roman invasion, Skin is a thrilling, full-blooded, mesmerising novel about the collision of two worlds, and a young woman torn between two men.
Author : George Herbert Cooper
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1358113777
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Author : Ronald Hutton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300198584
Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic inscriptions, is both enthralling and perplexing to a resident of the twenty-first century. In this ambitious and thoroughly up-to-date book, Ronald Hutton reveals the long development, rapid suppression, and enduring cultural significance of paganism, from the Paleolithic Era to the coming of Christianity. He draws on an array of recently discovered evidence and shows how new findings have radically transformed understandings of belief and ritual in Britain before the arrival of organized religion. Setting forth a chronological narrative, Hutton along the way makes side visits to explore specific locations of ancient pagan activity. He includes the well-known sacred sites—Stonehenge, Avebury, Seahenge, Maiden Castle, Anglesey—as well as more obscure locations across the mainland and coastal islands. In tireless pursuit of the elusive “why” of pagan behavior, Hutton astonishes with the breadth of his understanding of Britain’s deep past and inspires with the originality of his insights.
Author : Brian Williams
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752491615
Life in Ancient Britain journeys through the ancient worlds of our ancestors: how they lived, how they shaped the landscape we know today, and how we know what we do, about their achievements. This guide offers a concise and lively introduction to the prehistory of the British Isles – covering the period from around 500,000 years ago when Palaeolithic hunters camped at Boxgrove in West Sussex, through the later Middle and New Stone Ages, and on to the Bronze Age and the start of the Iron Age. It describes how people first came to settle in Britain, and explores the rich mysteries of atmospheric ceremonial meeting places, barrows and stone circles. Also featured is the coming of the age of metals, when warrior-farmers created hilltop forts and settlements, stone brochs and lakeside villages – indeed the Celtic Britain that the Romans found, when they first landed on our shores.