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The Island Sunrise: Prehistoric Culture in the British Isles

By Jill Paton Walsh

Book information

Publisher
The Seabury Press
Year
1976
ISBN
0816431558, 9780816431557
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15446097 bytes)
Pages
136\140
Topic
History Archaeology
Time added
2021-11-15 23:46:36

Description

All human achievement depends on a food surplus — only when a hunter could provide more than enough food for his own needs could others concentrate on toolmaking, carving, or even painting. During the vast period of time covered by this book, man developed from a primitive, restless, ape-like creature to a dweller in settled communities, capable of husbanding his resources and organising sustained corporate effort. The Stone Age hunters made beautiful and highly effective flint weapons. The farming communities of the Neolithic period developed the axes they needed for clearing the land, but they also decorated them. In the Bronze and Iron Ages, man found sufficient time and prosperity to offer patronage to craftsmen, priests, and poets. Introduction page 9 Tribes of Wanderers ii First Settlers 41 Founders of Bronze 64 Men of Iron 87 Appendix I: Radiocarbon dating and the tree-ring calibration 114 Appendix II: Indo-European Languages 119 Bibliography 123 Index 125

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