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Beschreibung
Edited by Barry Cunliffe, one of the world's leading archaeologists, this book provides a comprehensive account of prehistoric Europe from the coming of the Stone Age to the fall of the Roman Empire. Unique in its approach, it is a history of both humanity and the environment, looking at the changing landscape of Europe and the responses and adaptations to these changes.

With over 300 plates, maps, and figures, this fascinating volume will be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in the early history, art, and archaeology of Europe.
Edited by Barry Cunliffe, one of the world's leading archaeologists, this book provides a comprehensive account of prehistoric Europe from the coming of the Stone Age to the fall of the Roman Empire. Unique in its approach, it is a history of both humanity and the environment, looking at the changing landscape of Europe and the responses and adaptations to these changes.

With over 300 plates, maps, and figures, this fascinating volume will be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in the early history, art, and archaeology of Europe.
Über den Autor
Barry Cunliffe is Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford. The author of over 40 books, including The Ancient Celts, published by Oxford University Press, he has served as President of the Council for British Archaeology and the Society of Antiquaries, and is currently a member of the Ancient Monuments Board of English Heritage.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • List of Colour Plates

  • List of Maps

  • Acknowledgements

  • Introduction

  • 1: Clive Gamble: The Peopling of Europe, 700,000-400,000 Years before the Present

  • 2: Paul Mellars: The Upper Paleolithic Revolution

  • 3: Stephen J. Mithen: The Mesolithic Age

  • 4: Alasdair Whittle: The First Farmers

  • 5: Andrew Sherratt: The Transformation of Early Agrarian Europe: The Later Neolithic and Copper Ages, 4500-2500 BC

  • 6: K. A. Wardle: The Palace Civilizations of Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece, 2000-1200 BC

  • 7: Andrew Sherratt: The Emergence of Elites: Earlier Bronze Age Europe, 2500-1300 BC

  • 8: Mervyn Popham: The Collapse of Aegean Civilization at the End of the Late Bronze Age

  • 9: Anthony Harding: Reformation in Barbarian Europe, 1300-600 BC

  • 10: Barry Cunliffe: Iron Age Societies in Western Europe and Beyond: 800-140 BC

  • 11: Timothy Taylor: Thracians, Scythians, and Dacians, 800 BC-AD 300

  • 12: Barry Cunliffe: The Impact of Rome on Barbarian Society, 140 BC-AD300

  • 13: Malcolm Todd: Barbarian Europe, AD 300-700

  • Further Reading

  • Chronological Tables

  • Acknowledgement of Sources

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Oxford Illustrated History
Inhalt: IX
532 S.
ISBN-13: 9780192854414
ISBN-10: 0192854410
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gamble/Mellars/Mithen et al
Redaktion: Cunliffe, Barry
Herausgeber: Barry Cunliffe
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Oxford Illustrated History
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, vertrieb@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 250 x 190 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Barry Cunliffe
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.08.2002
Gewicht: 1,278 kg
Artikel-ID: 105575913