Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 494 g
Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 494 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
ISBN: 978-1-108-08256-3
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 2 discusses cinerary urns, and the grave goods, including the so-called 'pygmy urns', associated with them.
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1. Cinerary urns; 2. Pottery types; 3. Type 2, small cinerary or pygmy vessels; 4. Age of pygmy vessels; 5. Type 3, southern groups 1, 2, 3; 6. Relative age of southern types 3, 4; 7. Pottery types, area 2; 8. Pottery types, area 1; 9. Ethnographical; 10. Stonehenge; 11. Who were the brachycephalic invaders?; 12. Limits of the bronze age; 13. Relative chronology of pottery of bronze age I-V; Plates.
