Study of the Bronze Age Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland and Its - Associated Grave Good

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung John Abercromby! a soldier and keen archaeologist! published this two-volume work in 1912. It is a chronological survey of British and Irish ceramics from the late Neolithic to the end of the Bronze Age! classifying these by type and geographical area! and examining the goods associated with them in burials. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: John Abercromby, Abercromby John
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.03.2015
• EAN: 9781108082563
• ISBN: 978-1-108-08256-3
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology; A Study of the Bronze Age Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland and its Associated Grave-Goods 2 Volume Set
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Creative design; Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); prehistory, ART / Ceramics, Ceramic arts, pottery, glass, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, ART / Glass, Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology, Ceramics, mosaic and glass: artworks, ART / European / General