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Autore |
Darvill Timothy |
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Titolo |
Prehistoric Britain / / Timothy Darvill |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-97304-4 |
1-282-65975-8 |
9786612659751 |
0-203-85194-3 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (417 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge world archaeology |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Prehistoric peoples - Great Britain |
Antiquities, Prehistoric - Great Britain |
Electronic books. |
Great Britain Antiquities |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF TABLES; ABBREVIATIONS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW: Prehistory in the present; 2 BEFORE THE FLOOD: Early hunter-gatherer societies to 13,000 BC; 3 TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS: Post-glacial hunter-gatherers 13,000-4000 BC; 4 BLOOD ON THE TRACKS: Hunter-farmers 4000-3200 BC; 5 RISE UP LIKE THE SUN: Early chiefdom societies 3200-2000 BC; 6 DARK SIDE OF THE MOON: Agrarian societies 2000-800 BC; 7 BROTHERS IN ARMS: Tribes and chiefdoms 800-100 BC |
8 ON THE THRESHOLD OF A DREAM: Living beside the Roman Empire 100 BC-AD 509 LET IT BE: Patterns of society and change; BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Britain has been inhabited by humans for over half a million years, during which time there were a great many changes in lifestyles and in the surrounding landscape. This book, now in its second edition, examines the development of human societies in Britain from earliest times to the Roman conquest of AD 43, as revealed by archaeological evidence. Special attention is given to six themes which are traced |
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through prehistory: subsistence, technology, ritual, trade, society, and population. Prehistoric Britain begins by introducing the background to prehistoric studies |
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