Archeology
Arthur Bulleid
The Lake Villages of Somerset
Glastonbury Antiquarian Society; ; Pages:
ISBN:
Is the classic text on the Glastonbury Lake villages containing details on
their way of life and posessions.
Audouze, Françoise and Büchsenschütz, Olicier
Towns,
Villages and Countryside of Celtic Europe
Indiana Univ Press; 1992; Pages: 256
US$50
ISBN: 0-253-31082-2
In setting out the landmarks in the history of settlement in Celtic Europe,
this book shows that the two millennia before the Roman conquest was a time of
great technological, social and economic progress. It was a period that saw the
development of timber architecture, the growth of rural crafts, the establishment
of stratified societies and the evolution of true urban centres. This is in contrast
to the commonly accepted picture inherited from the Roman authors who often portrayed
the Celts as barbarians. Francoise Audouze and Olivier Buchsenschutz, themselves
archaeologists, use primary archaeological information to explain the complex
processes involved in the transformation of Europe's rural landscapes. They bring
together specific examples and illustrations from many different countries and
present the various debates on how the accumulated wealth of archaeological evidence
is currently being interpreted. The result is an overview of the whole of Celtic
Europe at a period of rapid advancement that produced a remarkable level of cultural
unity in a vast region extending from the Danube to the Atlantic coasts. This
book provides a useful synthesis of many aspects of later European prehistory
and makes an important contribution to the study of the settlement structures
and social organization of the Celts
Barry Cunliffe
Danebury
- Anatomy of an Iron Age Hillfort
Batsford; ; Pages:
ISBN: 0-7134-0999-l
Bord, Janet and Colin
Atlas
of Magical Britian
Chartwell Books; 1990; Pages: 192
ISBN: 155521-945-4
The publisher is out of stock. If you would like to purchase this title, we
recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it's been reprinted
Brothwell, Don
The Bog
Man and the Archaeology of People
Harvard Univ Pr; October 1987; Pages:
19.57
ISBN: 071372563X
Clarke, Dan
A Guide
to Britain's Pagan Hertiage
Robert Hale; 1995; Pages: 224
£10
ISBN: 0-7090-5405-X
This title is out of print.
Dames, Michael
The Avebury
Cycle
Thames & Hudson; 1996; Pages:
$13.56
ISBN: 0500278865
Hawkins, Gerald S.
Stonehenge
Decoded
Barnes & Noble; 1993; Pages: 210
ISBN: 0-88029-147-8
This title is out of print.
I.M. Stead
Iron Age
Cemeteries in East Yorkshire
British Museum Press; ; Pages:
ISBN: 1-85074-3517
I.M. Stead
The Arras Culture
Echo Press; ; Pages:
ISBN:
James Dyer
Hillforts
of England and Wales
Shire; ; Pages:
ISBN: 0-7478-0180-0
Raftery, Barry
Pagan
Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age
Thames & Hudson; 1994; Pages: 240
$29.97
ISBN: 0500050724
1. Introduction 2. From Bronzesmith to Blacksmith 3. Hillforts 4. King and
Tribe 5. The Road to God Knows Where 6. The Invisible People 7. Technology and
Art 8. Cult, Ritual and Death 9. Beyond the Empire 10. Celts, Culture and Colonization
Appendix: Radiocarbon Dates Used in the Text
Raftery, Barry et al (eds)
Sites
and Sights of the Iron Age
David Brown; 1996; Pages:
$48.00
ISBN: 1900188007
Oxbow Monographs in Archaeology , No 56; dedicated to Ian Stead
Renfrew, Colin
Archaeology
and Language : The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins
CUP; 1990; Pages:
$22.95
ISBN: 0521386756
A Reader from the Netherlands: Since the mid-nineteenth century it has been
recognised that most languages can be grouped together with others based on their
common roots. One of these groups is that of the indo-european languages (which
include the germanic, romance, celtic, slavic, baltic, greek and indo-iranian
languages). At one time the area in which these related languages were spoken
stretched from the Atlantic to the Far East and from Scandinavia to the Indian
sub-continent. Most archaeologists and linguists have suggested: a) that the origin
of the indo-european languages lies within the relatively recent past, most probably
within the steppes of southern Russia; and b) that the subsequent expansion of
the language group was the effect of waves of invading groups stemming from that
area. In this challenging and fascinating book, Professor Renfrew suggests that
the time-depth of the spread and development of these languages coincided with
the spread of agriculture from its middle eastern (e.g. in this case anatolian)
origins. He also presents models for the spread of these languages which are intuitively
satifying in that they do not require great hordes of people wandering around
europe for no particular reason. If you are interested in the origins of the indo-european
languages (including english, of course) this is a great place to start.
Ross, Anne and Robins, Don
The Life
and Death of a Druid Prince
Summit Books; 1989; Pages: 176
US$19.95
ISBN: 0-671-69536-3
Stead, Ian M et al (eds)
Lindow
Man : The Body in the Bog
Cornell U Pr; 1986; Pages:
$32.50
ISBN: 0801419980
Herity, Michael & Eogan, George
Ireland
in Prehistory
Routledge; 1997; Pages: 302
$22.95
ISBN: 0-415-04889-3
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
Hinds, Katherine
The Celts
of Northern Europe (Cultures of the Past)
Marshall Cavendish Corp; Feb 1996; Pages:
$28.50
ISBN: 0761400923
Ross, Anne
Pagan
Celtic Britain
Academy Chicago Pr; 1996; Pages:
$17.95
ISBN: 0094723303
Philosophy and Religion Editor's Recommended Book, 01/16/97: For a people that
at one time dominated much of Europe, very little is known of the Celts and their
religion, yet many flimsy theories and fanciful relationships have grown up over
the years based on the scant evidence available. In a scholarly and systematic
study, Anne Ross draws on all of the available evidence -- archaeological sites
in Europe and the British Isles, ancient Greek and Roman writers and early British
vernacular literature -- to separate the grain of what we know from the chaff
of accreted misinformation and loose interpretation.
Mallory, JP
In Search
of the Indo-Europeans : Language, Archaeology, and Myth
Thames & Hudson; 1991; Pages:
$19.95
ISBN: 0500276161
A READER: Mallory's work uncovers and states clearly all that is currently
known about the Indo-European languages that include English. Using every manner
of research from Archaeology to Religion, Mallory sets out to explain the common
links and evolution of the Germanic (including English), Celtic, Latin, Slavonic,
Illyrian, Albanian, Greek, Armenian, Tocharian, Anatolian, Illyrian, Iranian,
Dardic, and Indo-Aryan branches of this vast family of languages. The importance
of this work concerns more than half of mankind. Mallory pieces together the still
not fully understood puzzle of the early origins of our mysterious Indo-European
forebears and has reached the pinacle of his field thus far.
Snyder, Christopher
An Age
of Tyrants : Britain and the Britons, A.D. 400-600
Penn State Univ Pr; 1998; Pages:
$65.00
ISBN: 0271017422
Merrifield, Ralph
Archaeology
of Ritual and Magic
New Amsterdam; 1989; Pages: 224
$12.76
ISBN: 0941533263
Booknews, Inc. , 06/01/89: The author demonstrates that all through the fundamental
changes of religious belief, from primitive animism to scientific rationalism,
the same kinds of simple ritual have survived into our own times because they
give comfort and a sense of security.
Stone, Merlin
When God
Was a Woman
Harcourt Brace; 1978; Pages: 265
$9.60
ISBN: 015696158X
Here, archaeologically documented is the story of the religion of the Goddess.
Known by many names, she reigned supreme in the Near and Middle East. How did
the change in women's roles come about? By documenting the wholesale rewriting
of myth and religious dogmans, Stone details an ancient conspiracy that laid the
foundation for one of culture's greatest shams--the legend of Adam and fallen
Eve.