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Author | : Susan A. Johnston |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1934536407 |
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The site of Dún Ailinne is one of four major ritual sites from the Irish Iron Age, each said to form the center of a political kingdom and thus described as "royal." Excavation has produced artifacts ranging from the Neolithic (about 5,000 years ago) through the later Iron Age (fourth century CE), when the site was the focus of repeated rituals, probably related to the creation and maintenance of political hegemony. A series of timber structures were built and replaced as each group of leaders sought to claim ancient descent from a deep past and still create something unique and lasting. Pam J. Crabtree and Ronald Hicks provide analyses on, respectively, biological remains and Dún Ailinne's role in folklore, myth, and the sacred landscape, while Katherine Moreau examines bronze and iron artifacts and Elizabeth Hamilton, slag.
Author | : Miranda Green |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 866 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 113563243X |
Download The Celtic World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 Much of the material is new research which is previously unpublished.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.
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Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Animal remains (Archaeology) |
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Vols. for 1987- contain Acts of the 5th International Conference of Archaeozoology, Bordeaux, Aug. 1986.
Author | : Edward Patrick Hogan |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : 1438105142 |
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These information-packed volumes provide comprehensive overviews of each nation's people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture
Author | : Hugh Kearney |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1995-02-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521484886 |
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Challenging traditional accounts of what constitutes national history, this unique survey of the British Isles from pre-Roman times to the 20th century is distinguished by its stress on the fact that English history forms only part of a broader "history of four nations."
Author | : Diane Gifford-Gonzalez |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 611 |
Release | : 2018-04-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3319656821 |
Download An Introduction to Zooarchaeology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume is a comprehensive, critical introduction to vertebrate zooarchaeology, the field that explores the history of human relations with animals from the Pliocene to the Industrial Revolution. The book is organized into five sections, each with an introduction, that leads the reader systematically through this swiftly expanding field. Section One presents a general introduction to zooarchaeology, key definitions, and an historical survey of the emergence of zooarchaeology in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and introduces the conceptual approach taken in the book. This volume is designed to allow readers to integrate data from the book along with that acquired elsewhere within a coherent analytical framework. Most of its chapters take the form of critical “review articles,” providing a portal into both the classic and current literature and contextualizing these with original commentary. Summaries of findings are enhanced by profuse illustrations by the author and others.
Author | : Desmond Keenan |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2004-01-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1465318690 |
Download The True Origins of Irish Society Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book had its origin when the author was glancing through an English translation of Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf. He was so struck by Hitler’s account of German history before, during, and after the First World War that he went and bought the book. What amazed him was its resemblance to the version of Irish history that he had been taught in Irish schools. There was no question of either side borrowing directly from the other, but equally obviously both were drawing on a common set of ideas and used a common method of exposition. Further study showed that both exposed a racist view of history and believed in the Darwinian struggle of the races. Both regarded their countries as subjected by alien races who destroyed the pure native culture. Both attributed every evil in their respective societies to these malign evil influences. Both saw that the alien races would have to be expelled from their countries so that their countries could again prosper when their native cultures were restored. Protestant landlords in Ireland had the same place in Irish racist propaganda and political mythology that the Jews had in Nazi political mythology. Most Irish boys of the author’s generation had, like Hitler, come across an inspiring teacher of history who inspired them to nationalism with his one-sided stories of Irish wrongs at the hands of the English. Having realised that the standard version of Irish history was vitiated in its roots the problem arose as to how a version of Irish history could be written which was fair to all parties involved. Many excellent books and monographs on various parts of Irish history have been written, and he has drawn on them considerably in this book. It is noticeable that the further the subject of an historical study is from the present the easier it is to be objective, and the less controversy there is. Some of the points examined and tested in this book are basic assumptions of racist propaganda, that separate races exist, that languages distinguish races, that each race has its own unique culture, and that foreign invasions necessarily destroy that unique culture. The author makes no claim to have done original research on any of the topics discussed in this book, but has drawn on the standard published works. He brings to the research a wide knowledge of the various subjects discussed which he has gathered over a lifetime. As a result of his researches he came to several conclusions. Firstly, that there was no unique Irish or Celtic race, Celtic being merely a language that had spread into many parts of Europe including Ireland. There was only one race in Europe, that of the Palaeolithic hunters who spread over it in the wake of the retreating ice-sheets. Celtic was a branch of the Indo-European languages which originated, apparently in southern Russia about 3000 BC. Gradually it broke into different dialects which further developed into distinct languages. But as late at 1500 BC Gaelic, Anglo-Saxon, and German were the same language. There was no evidence of invasions like those of Celtic warriors or any evidence that they wiped out the native population. As one author (Raftery) however remarked ruefully, it was regarded as virtually heresy to suggest that there never was a Celtic invasion. The culture of Ireland was not unique. It was derived bit by bit from centres of origin abroad, often in the Middle East. Nor were the various bits introduced by conquering warrior races. Farming techniques seem to have been spread largely by copying. Techniques in metal-working by travelling families who kept their secrets among themselves. Borrowing was selective. The Celtic language is as likely to have been introduced by traders as by warriors. Some things like writing and building with stone seem to have been neglected until introduced later in differing circumstances. There is no evidence that Ireland was a peaceful and prosperous land before the coming of ‘the in
Author | : Stephen Johnson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2014-03-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317756290 |
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Later Roman Britain, first published in 1980, charts the end of Roman rule in Britain and gives an overall impression of the beginning of the so-called ‘Dark Ages’ of British history, the transitional period which saw the breakdown of Roman administration and the beginnings of Saxon settlement. Stephen Johnson traces the flourishing of Romano-British society and the pressures upon it which produced its eventual fragmentation, examining the province’s barbarian neighbours and the way the defence was organised against the many threats to its security. The final chapters, using mainly the findings of recent archaeology, assess the initial arrival of the Saxon settlers, and indicate the continuity of life between late Roman and early Saxon England. Later Roman Britain gives a fascinating glimpse of a period scarce with historical sources, but during which changes fundamental to the formation of modern Britain began to take place.
Author | : Alistair Marshall |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2021-07-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789697069 |
Download Orientation of Prehistoric Monuments in Britain: A Reassessment Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Reassesses major axial alignment at many megalithic ritual and funerary monuments (Neolithic to Bronze Age) in Britain and Ireland, not in terms of abstract astronomical concerns, but as an expression of repeated seasonal propitiation involving community, agrarian economy and ancestry in an attempt to mitigate variable environmental conditions.
Author | : Edmund Curtis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136111328 |
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Starting in about 6000 BC, Peter Somerset Fry and Fiona Somerset Fry present a concise and enjoyable history of Ireland taking the story up to the 1980s. `A welcome introduction.' - Belfast Telegraph