Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 614 g
Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 614 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
ISBN: 978-1-108-08255-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
The fifth Baron Abercromby (1841–1924), a soldier and keen archaeologist, published this two-volume work in 1912. His especial interest was prehistoric pottery, and he introduced the word 'beaker' as a term to indicate the late Neolithic/Chalcolithic western European culture which produced these characteristic clay drinking vessels. His aim was to produce a chronological survey of British and Irish ceramics from the late Neolithic to the end of the Bronze Age, to classify these by type and geographical area, and to examine the goods associated with dateable pottery in burials and cremation urns. This heavily illustrated work also puts the British beakers into their European context and considers the possible indications of movements of people given by variations in style. Volume 1 examines burials, the associated grave-goods, and skeletal remains, especially skulls, which may provide ethnographic information.
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Preface; 1. Introductory; 2. British ceramic; 3. Continental and British ornamentation compared; 4. Objects found with beaker interments; 5. Ethnographical and historical; 6. Colonization and diffusion of the invaders; 7. The food-vessel class; 8. Pottery types; 9. Pottery types (cont.); 10. Pottery types (cont.); 11. Ornamentation; 12. Objects found with food vessels; 13. Ethnographical section; 14. Ethnographical; Plates.
