文档介绍：Ancient Britain
Routledge, London and New York
With gratitude to
for introducing me to archaeology
First published 1990 by B. T. Batsford Ltd
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.
© James Dyer 1990
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Contents
List of Illustrations 6
Acknowledgements 10
A Note on Dating 11
Introduction 13
1 In the Beginning 15
2 Agriculturalists and Monument Builders 29
3 The Cult of the Dead 47
4 The Growth of Ceremonial 63
5 The Beaker Users 84
6 Into the Bronze Age 92
7 The First Millennium BC 116
8 The Spread of Hillforts 124
9 Burials, Society and the End of Prehistoric Britain 150
Select Bibliography 169
Glossary 171
Index 173
5
List of Illustrations
Figures 31 Major monuments in the locality of
1 The extent of ice sheets during the Anglian, Avebury
Wolstonian and Devensian glaciations 32 Two stone circles: Long Meg and her
2 The contorted soils covering the Daughters, and the Rollright Stones
palaeolithic floor at Caddington (Beds) 33 The recumbent stone circle of Loanhead of
3 Palaeolithic flint implements Daviot
4 Overhanging cliffs providing rock shelters 34 The neolithic village of Skara Brae
5 Upper palaeolithic art