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Book Synopsis Hill-forts of Northern France by : Mortimer Wheeler
Download or read book Hill-forts of Northern France written by Mortimer Wheeler and published by Society of Antiquaries of London. This book was released on 1957 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report records the results of two seasons' exploration, lasting in all for about thirteen weeks, in northern France during the summers of 1938 and 1939, with minor excursions in 1954-6. It contains an analytical list of ninety-three fortified enclosures, mostly hill-forts of Early Iron Age type, with detailed accounts of our excavations in five of them. In the basis of this work, three groups of enclosures are isolated and discussed, with special reference to the Caesarian campaigns which is various ways they appear to illustrate. To the documented pottery from the excavations is added a miscellaneous assemblage of unclassified material from museums as a partial indication of the scope of the general problem and the extent of present ignorance. An appendix surveys the French muri Gallici to which our excavations contributed to two new examples, respectively in Brittany and western Normandy." -- Preface
Book Synopsis Hill-forts of Northern France. With an Appendix on Muri Gallici by : Sir Mortimer Wheeler
Download or read book Hill-forts of Northern France. With an Appendix on Muri Gallici written by Sir Mortimer Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Celtic World written by Miranda Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Celtic World is a detailed and comprehensive study of the Celts from the first evidence of them in the archaeological and historical record to the early post-Roman period. The strength of this volume lies in its breadth - it looks at archaeology, language, literature, towns, warfare, rural life, art, religion and myth, trade and industry, political organisations, society and technology. The Celtic World draws together material from all over pagan Celtic Europe and includes contributions from British, European and American scholars. Much of the material is new research which is previously unpublished. The book addresses some important issues - Who were the ancient Celts? Can we speak of them as the first Europeans? In what form does the Celtic identity exist today and how does this relate to the ancient Celts? For anyone interested in the Celts, and for students and academics alike, The Celtic World will be a valuable resource and a fascinating read.
Book Synopsis Walled Towns and the Shaping of France by : M. Wolfe
Download or read book Walled Towns and the Shaping of France written by M. Wolfe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the development of towns in France, taking into account military technology, physical geography, shifting regional networks tying urban communities together, and the emergence of new forms of public authority and civic life.
Book Synopsis Bretons and Britons by : Barry Cunliffe
Download or read book Bretons and Britons written by Barry Cunliffe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about Brittany that makes it such a favourite destination for the British? To answer this question, Bretons and Britons explores the long history of the Bretons, from the time of the first farmers around 5400 BC to the present, and the very close relationship they have had with their British neighbours throughout this time. More than simply a history of a people, Bretons and Britons is also the author's homage to a country and a people he has come to admire over decades of engagement. Underlying the story throughout is the tale of the Bretons' fierce struggle to maintain their distinctive identity. As a peninsula people living on a westerly excrescence of Europe they were surrounded on three sides by the sea, which gave them some protection from outside interference, but their landward border was constantly threatened - not only by succeeding waves of Romans, Franks, and Vikings, but also by the growing power of the French state. It was the sea that gave the Bretons strength and helped them in their struggle for independence. They shared in the culture of Atlantic-facing Europe, and from the eighteenth century, when a fascination for the Celts was beginning to sweep Europe, they were able to present themselves as the direct successors of the ancient Celts along with the Cornish, Welsh, Scots, and Irish. This gave them a new strength and a new pride. It is this spirit that is still very much alive today.
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of France by : Gino Raymond
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of France written by Gino Raymond and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the construction of Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower to the Fall of the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen to NapolZon Bonaparte's defeat at Waterloo to Albert Camus' L'Etranger and the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, France has been a part of some of the greatest and most memorable events in human history. Author Gino Raymond relates the history of these events in the second edition of the Historical Dictionary of France. Through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on kings, politicians, authors, architects, composers, artists, and philosophers, a thorough history of France is presented.
Book Synopsis Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia XV by : Bakels
Download or read book Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia XV written by Bakels and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aileen written by Aileen Fox and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aileen Fox, a pioneer of archaeology at Exeter University, was one of the first women to hold a senior post at a British university and was a committed supporter of local archaeology throughout a career that spanned six decades. This highly personal and engaging memoir records her life and work in great detail, from her birth in affluent Kensington in 1907, through a career alongside Mortimer Wheeler and other luminaries with prehistoric excavations in south Wales and southern England to her productive decade in New Zealand.
Book Synopsis The South West to 1000 AD by : Malcolm Todd
Download or read book The South West to 1000 AD written by Malcolm Todd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and detailed history of the south-west of England written in a clear and accessible style. A wondeful resource for any local historian.
Book Synopsis The European Community in Later Prehistory by : John Boardman
Download or read book The European Community in Later Prehistory written by John Boardman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected together in this volume were written in honour of Professor Christopher Hawkes, in recognition of his stature as an international scholar and his generosity in encouraging the work of others. The collection consists of a closely-knit group of studies, and includes contributions from continental scholars. The topics covered range from links between the Mycenaean and Greek worlds, European body-armour, firedogs in Iron Age Britain to Bronzes in Hungary. Originally published in 1971.
Book Synopsis Headhunting and the Body in Iron Age Europe by : Ian Armit
Download or read book Headhunting and the Body in Iron Age Europe written by Ian Armit and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across Iron Age Europe the human head carried symbolic associations with power, fertility status, gender, and more. Evidence for the removal, curation and display of heads ranges from classical literary references to iconography and skeletal remains. Traditionally, this material has been associated with a Europe-wide 'head-cult', and used to support the idea of a unified Celtic culture in prehistory. This book demonstrates instead how headhunting and head-veneration were practised across a range of diverse and fragmented Iron Age societies. Using case studies from France, Britain and elsewhere, it explores the complex and subtle relationships between power, religion, warfare and violence in Iron Age Europe.
Book Synopsis Unquiet Pasts by : Stephanie Koerner
Download or read book Unquiet Pasts written by Stephanie Koerner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book addresses critical themes in the development of archaeology as a reflexive, self-critical discipline in the modern world. It explores the ethical, political and cultural tensions and responsibilities which need to be addressed by archaeologists when working within networks of global ecologies and communities, examining how authoritarian traditions can exacerbate the divide between expert and public knowledge. Moreover, it analyses how localized acts of archaeology relate to changing conceptions of risk, heritage, culture, identity, and conflict. Bringing insights from Alain Schnapp, Michael Shanks, Isabelle Stengers, Bruno Latour, Ulrich Beck, John Urry and others to cross-disciplinary discussions of these themes, Unquiet Pasts shows how archaeological discourse can contribute towards engaging and understanding current dilemmas. It also shows how archaeology, as a localized and responsibly exercised practice, can play a part in building our commonly shared and experienced world.
Book Synopsis The Creation of Brittany by : Michael Jones
Download or read book The Creation of Brittany written by Michael Jones and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Jones is recognised on both sides of the Channel as an authority on late medieval Breton history. In this book he brings together much of his work on the subject, examining not only the administration of the duchy but also more intangible questions about the identity of a late medieval state.
Book Synopsis Hillforts: Britain, Ireland and the Nearer Continent by : Gary Lock
Download or read book Hillforts: Britain, Ireland and the Nearer Continent written by Gary Lock and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland project (2012-2016) compiled a massive database on hillforts by a team drawn from the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh and Cork. This volume outlines the history of the project, offers preliminary assessments of the online digital Atlas and presents initial research studies using Atlas data.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age by : Colin Haselgrove
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age written by Colin Haselgrove and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 1425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age presents a broad overview of current understanding of the archaeology of Europe from 1000 BC through to the early historic periods, exploiting the large quantities of new evidence yielded by the upsurge in archaeological research and excavation on this period over the last thirty years. Three introductory chapters situate the reader in the times and the environments of Iron Age Europe. Fourteen regional chapters provide accessible syntheses of developments in different parts of the continent, from Ireland and Spain in the west to the borders with Asia in the east, from Scandinavia in the north to the Mediterranean shores in the south. Twenty-six thematic chapters examine different aspects of Iron Age archaeology in greater depth, from lifeways, economy, and complexity to identity, ritual, and expression. Among the many topics explored are agricultural systems, settlements, landscape monuments, iron smelting and forging, production of textiles, politics, demography, gender, migration, funerary practices, social and religious rituals, coinage and literacy, and art and design.
Book Synopsis Celtic Social Structure by : Carole L. Crumley
Download or read book Celtic Social Structure written by Carole L. Crumley and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Viking Trade and Settlement in Continental Western Europe by : Iben Skibsted Klæsøe
Download or read book Viking Trade and Settlement in Continental Western Europe written by Iben Skibsted Klæsøe and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European coastal areas and the lands around the rivers had great importance for the Vikings, who settled in strategic areas and defended themselves - often against other intruding Vikings. This book is a collection of articles focusing on the Vikings and their presence on the western European continent.
