Ireland in prehistory / Michael Herity and George Eogan
1978, 1st edition. London ; Boston : Routledge & K. Paul. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #324893
ISBN: 0710084137
Physical description: xvi, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates: illustrations; 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-282) and index. Contents:
1. The Background, Geographical and Historical -- 2. Stone Age Beginnings: Hunter-Fishers and First Farmers -- 3. The Boyne Culture: Passage Grave Builders in Ireland and Britain -- 4. Late Neolithic: Single Burials, New Technology and First Central European Contacts -- 5. Beaker Peoples and the Beginnings of a New Society -- 6. Food Vessel People: Consolidation of the Single Grave Culture -- 7. Urn People: Further Arrivals and New Developments -- 8. Industrial Changes Late Second-Early First Millennia -- 9. Final Bronze Age Society -- 10. Later Prehistoric Events: The Iron Age and the Celts -- 11. Retrospect. Subjects: Prehistoric peoples Ireland. Antiquities, Prehistoric Ireland. Man, Prehistoric Ireland. Prehistoric peoples. Genre: Bibliography. Illustrated.
Price: €25.00