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THE PREHISTORY OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND
This book presents a new interpretation of the prehistory of Britain and
Ireland and is the first in many years to consider both regions together.
Richard Bradley begins the account when Britain became separated
from the Continent and ends with the integration of the two islands into
a wider work shortly before the Roman Conquest. Using
both textual and material documentation, he also distils the results of
recent fieldwork, much of it funded mercial developers, which
has greatly expanded the quantity and variety of excavated evidence.
Bradley pares the archaeology of both islands and discusses the
varied ways in which their inhabitants lived their lives. Intended as an
interpretation rather than a manual, this book is primarily concerned
with settlements, landscapes, monuments, and the evidence for regional
variation. All of these topics are discussed in relation to contemporary
approaches to prehistory. Treating Britain and Ireland on equal terms,
Bradley also aims to avoid emphasizing a few well-researched areas, an
approach that characterized previous accounts of this subject.
Richard Bradley is a professor of archaeology at the University of
Reading. A Fellow of the British Academy and recipient of an honorary
doctorate from the University of Lund, he is the author of Ritual and
Domestic Life in Prehistoric Europe, The Past in Prehistoric Societies: An
Archaeology of Natural Places, The Significance of Monuments, and Rock Art
and the Prehistory of Atlantic Europe.
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