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Book Synopsis Before Scotland by : Alistair Moffatt
Download or read book Before Scotland written by Alistair Moffatt and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the land that became Scotland is one of dramatic geological events and impressive human endeavour. Alistair Moffats gripping narrative ranges from the great thaw at the end of the Ice Age which was instrumental in shaping Scotlands magnificent landscape through the megalith builders, the Celts and the Picts, to the ascension of King Constantine II. Moffat deploys his knowledge with wit and deftness, interweaving the story with numerous special features on topics as diverse as cave drawings of dancing girls, natural birth control, the myth of Atlantis and the Zoroastrian Towers of Silence all of them valuable, sometimes quirky, additions to the whole picture. Rounding out the account is a selection of carefully chosen colour photographs that give a strong sense of the Scottish landscape and monuments. Erudite and entertaining, Before Scotland transforms our understanding of a neglected period. A story of dramatic geological events and impressive human endeavour, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the land that became Scotland.
Book Synopsis Before Scotland: A Prehistory by : Alistair Moffat
Download or read book Before Scotland: A Prehistory written by Alistair Moffat and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering look at early Scotland that transforms prehistory into gripping narrative. The story of the land that became Scotland is one of dramatic geological events and impressive human endeavor. Alistair Moffat’s gripping narrative ranges from the great thaw at the end of the Ice Age, which was instrumental in shaping Scotland’s magnificent landscape; through the megalith builders, the Celts, and the Picts; to the ascension of King Constantine II. Moffat deploys his knowledge with wit and deftness, interweaving the story with numerous special features on topics as diverse as cave drawings of dancing girls, natural birth control, the myth of Atlantis, and the Zoroastrian Towers of Silence—all of them valuable, sometimes quirky, additions to the whole picture. Erudite and entertaining, Before Scotland transforms our understanding of a neglected period and is essential reading for anyone interested in the people, events, and monuments that make up Scotland’s captivating past.
Book Synopsis The Prehistory Of Scotland by : V. Gordon Childe
Download or read book The Prehistory Of Scotland written by V. Gordon Childe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, originally published in 1935, sought to reveal the significance of Scottish prehistory for the development of understanding of European prehistory. Written at a time of rapid accumulation of new relics and monuments and the insights from them, Professor Childe presented some important new data and made tentative conclusions for the future results from these finds. After an introduction to the geography of Scotland the book looks at evidence from cairns, tombs and stone circles and then addresses chronologically the evidence from Early Bronze Age to Late and onto the Iron Age, with a chapter devoted to forts, towns and castles. It ends with a discussion of what happened in the Dark Ages and addresses questions about the Celts and the Picts and the diversity of the peoples in Scotland.
Book Synopsis Scotland Before the Scots by : V. Gordon Childe
Download or read book Scotland Before the Scots written by V. Gordon Childe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Using archaeological evidence, the author distinguishes 6 stages – from the earliest definable groups of immigrants to the Iron Age. There are 10 appendices, devoted to the typology and classification of tombs, pottery, implements and fortifications.
Download or read book Scotland written by Fiona J. Watson and published by History Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively new history from one of Scotland's brightest young historians.
Book Synopsis Scotland Before History by : Stuart Piggott
Download or read book Scotland Before History written by Stuart Piggott and published by London ; Toronto : T. Nelson. This book was released on 1958 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scotland Since Prehistory by : T. Christopher Smout
Download or read book Scotland Since Prehistory written by T. Christopher Smout and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Early Prehistory of Scotland by : Tony Pollard
Download or read book The Early Prehistory of Scotland written by Tony Pollard and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scotland from Pre-History by : Fiona Watson
Download or read book Scotland from Pre-History written by Fiona Watson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early settlers after the last Ice Age, and the myth and ritual that surrounds that prehistoric period, Fiona Watson charts the evolution of the Scottish people - as Scots, Picts and Angles - and their interaction with the world abroad, from invasions by the Romans and Vikings and the medieval wars of independence with England right through to Devolution.
Book Synopsis The Prehistoric Peoples of Scotland by : Stuart Piggott
Download or read book The Prehistoric Peoples of Scotland written by Stuart Piggott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on lectures given at the Conference of the British Summer School of Archaeology at Edinburgh in 1954, this book, published in 1962, surveys the general field of pre-historic Scotland, five archaeologists each contributing chapters discussing the main aspects and problems that have presented themselves in specialised research areas. From the first peopling of the area by human communities with hunting and food-gathering economies, to field antiquities and the introduction of copper and bronze metallurgy and on to the first settlement by Celtic speakers and the links to the first historically documented Scotland. Contributors: R.J.C. Atkinson, G.E. Daniel, T.G.E. Powell and C.A.R. Radford.
Book Synopsis Scottish Prehistory by : Richard D. Oram
Download or read book Scottish Prehistory written by Richard D. Oram and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook on the archaeology of prehistoric Scotland incorporates a gazetteer of key sites and monuments. It ranges from the seventh millennium BC, through the Neolithic period and the Bronze Age, to the emergence of the early historic kingdoms after the Celtic Iron Age.
Book Synopsis Scotland Before History by : Stuart Piggott
Download or read book Scotland Before History written by Stuart Piggott and published by . This book was released on 1990-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Prehistoric Annals of Scotland by : Sir Daniel Wilson
Download or read book Prehistoric Annals of Scotland written by Sir Daniel Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Settlement and Sacrifice by : Richard Hingley
Download or read book Settlement and Sacrifice written by Richard Hingley and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a reassessment of the peoples who lived in Scotland from 1500BC to 200AD.
Book Synopsis The Archæology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland (Part - I) by : Daniel Wilson
Download or read book The Archæology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland (Part - I) written by Daniel Wilson and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
Book Synopsis The Prehistoric Peoples of Scotland by : Stuart Piggott
Download or read book The Prehistoric Peoples of Scotland written by Stuart Piggott and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume originated as a series of lectures and includes Fishermen and Farmers by R.J.C. Atkinson, The Megalith Builders by G. E. Daniel, Traders and Metalworkers by S. Piggott, The Coming of the Celts by T.G.E. Powell, and From Prehistory to History by C.A.R. Radford.
Book Synopsis The Archaeology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland by : Sir Daniel Wilson
Download or read book The Archaeology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland written by Sir Daniel Wilson and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The zeal for Archæological investigation which has recently manifested itself in nearly every country of Europe, has been traced, not without reason, to the impulse which proceeded from Abbotsford. Though such is not exactly the source which we might expect to give birth to the transition from profitless dilettantism to the intelligent spirit of scientific investigation, yet it is unquestionable that Sir Walter Scott was the first of modern writers "to teach all men this truth, which looks like a truism, and yet was as good as unknown to writers of history and others, till so taught,—that the bygone ages of the world were actually filled by living men." If, however, the impulse to the pursuit of Archæology as a science be thus traceable to our own country, neither Scotland nor England can lay claim to the merit of having been the first to recognise its true character, or to develop its fruits. The spirit of antiquarianism has not, indeed, slumbered among us. It has taken form in Roxburgh, Bannatyne, Abbotsford, and other literary Clubs, producing valuable results for the use of the historian, but limiting its range within the Medieval era, and abandoning to isolated labourers that ampler field of research which embraces the prehistoric period of nations, and belongs not to literature but to the science of Nature. It was not till continental Archæologists had shewn what legitimate induction is capable of, that those of Britain were content to forsake laborious trifling, and associate themselves with renewed energy of purpose to establish the study on its true footing as an indispensable link in the circle of the sciences. Amid the increasing zeal for the advancement of knowledge, the time appears to have at length come for the thorough elucidation of Primeval Archæology as an element in the history of man. The British Association, expressly constituted for the purpose of giving a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, embraced within its original scheme no provision for the encouragement of those investigations which most directly tend to throw light on the origin and progress of the human race. Physical archæology was indeed admissible, in so far as it dealt with the extinct fauna of the palæontologist; but it was practically pronounced to be without the scientific pale whenever it touched on that portion of the archæology of the globe which comprehends the history of the race of human beings to which we ourselves belong. A delusive hope was indeed raised by the publication in the first volume of the Transactions of the Association, of one memoir on the contributions afforded by physical and philological researches to the history of the human species,—but the ethnologist was doomed to disappointment. During several annual meetings, elaborate and valuable memoirs, prepared on various questions relating to this important branch of knowledge, and to the primeval population of the British Isles, were returned to their authors without being read. This pregnant fact has excited little notice hitherto; but when the scientific history of the first half of the nineteenth century shall come to be reviewed by those who succeed us, and reap the fruits of such advancement as we now aim at, it will not be overlooked as an evidence of the exoteric character of much of the overestimated science of the age. Through the persevering zeal of a few resolute men of distinguished ability, ethnology was at length afforded a partial footing among the recognised sciences, and at the meeting of the Association to be held at Ipswich in 1851, it will for the first time take its place as a distinct section of British Science.
