Ireland in prehistory / Michael Herity and George Eogan
1977, 1st edition. London ; Boston : Routledge & K. Paul. Near fine cloth copy, gilt-blocked title to spine. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Minor library marks remain. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #386657
ISBN: 0710084137
Physical description; 302 pp.,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. Megalithic remains. Archaeology.
Price: €12.95