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050 00 $aGN803$b.O94 1994
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245 04 $aThe Oxford illustrated prehistory of Europe /$cedited by Barry Cunliffe.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1994.
263 $a9404
300 $aix, 532 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [483]-496) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Barry Cunliffe -- 1. The Peopling of Europe, 700,000-40,000 Years before the Present / Clive Gamble -- 2. The Upper Palaeolithic Revolution / Paul Mellars -- 3. The Mesolithic Age / Steven J. Mithen -- 4. The First Farmers / Alasdair Whittle -- 5. The Transformation of Early Agrarian Europe: The Later Neolithic and Copper Ages, 4500-2500 BC / Andrew Sherratt -- 6. The Palace Civilizations of Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece, 2000-1200 BC / K. A. Wardle -- 7. The Emergence of Elites: Earlier Bronze Age Europe, 2500-1300 BC / Andrew Sherratt -- 8. The Collapse of Aegean Civilization at the End of the Late Bronze Age / Mervyn Popham -- 9. Reformation in Barbarian Europe, 1300-600 BC / Anthony Harding -- 10. Iron Age Societies in Western Europe and Beyond, 800-140 BC / Barry Cunliffe -- 11. Thracians, Scythians, and Dacians 800 BC-AD 300 / Timothy Taylor -- 12. The Impact of Rome on Barbarian Society 140 BC-AD 300 / Barry Cunliffe -- 13. Barbarian Europe, AD 300-700 / Malcolm Todd.
520 $aFrom the coming of Stone Age man to the fall of the Roman Empire, the prehistory of Europe is often seen as a mysterious, fascinating, and by nature, indistinct phase of human development. Based on an entirely new concept designed to bring this period into sharper focus, The Oxford Illustrated Prehistory of Europe is a history of both man and the environment, looking at the changing landscape of Europe and the way man has responded and adapted to it over the millennia.
520 8 $aBeautifully illustrated, it provides a complete survey of the development of European society from the continent's earliest evidence of human population seven hundred thousand years ago, through the first farmers to barbarian and Iron Age societies, and the impact and eventual decline of Roman power in the eighth century AD. The twelve chapters focus on the principal periods and areas of innovation and culture, such as the Minoan and Mycenean civilizations, showing not only how these societies developed but their relationship to each other and the landscape. Each chapter is written by an expert in his field and is accompanied by a rich assortment of colour and black-and-white plates, maps, and drawings.
520 8 $aA useful time chart shows the developments of societies and their techniques against the background of events both historical and geographical. This unique and fascinating book will be enjoyed by anyone interested in the early history, art, and archaeology of Europe, and the changing face of the European landscape.
650 0 $aPrehistoric peoples$zEurope.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109926
651 0 $aEurope$xAntiquities.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045632
700 1 $aCunliffe, Barry W.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059942
852 00 $bglx$hGN803$i.O94 1994