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The Making of the Past
The Making of the Past is a new series designed to provide a complete survey of the early history of the world as revealed by archaeology and related disciplines. Its subject is a new history, the making of a new past, freshly uncovered and reconstructed in recent years by skilled specialists. Beautifully illustrated with photographs, many in full colour, and with maps, diagrams and line drawings including reconstructions, the series will be completely authoritative and up to date, while losing nothing of the excitement of recent discoveries about the ancient past.
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Prehistoric Europe
D. W. Harding
2ig illustrations i6g in colour
Five thousand years of prehistory precede the advent of the Christian era in Europe. From its origins in the Near East, civilization spread... Tovább

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About the series
The Making of the Past
The Making of the Past is a new series designed to provide a complete survey of the early history of the world as revealed by archaeology and related disciplines. Its subject is a new history, the making of a new past, freshly uncovered and reconstructed in recent years by skilled specialists. Beautifully illustrated with photographs, many in full colour, and with maps, diagrams and line drawings including reconstructions, the series will be completely authoritative and up to date, while losing nothing of the excitement of recent discoveries about the ancient past.
About this volume
Prehistoric Europe
D. W. Harding
2ig illustrations i6g in colour
Five thousand years of prehistory precede the advent of the Christian era in Europe. From its origins in the Near East, civilization spread westwards giving rise to the fifth- and fourth-millennium BC megalithic cultures of central Europe. The third millennium brought from Russia the use of copper and subsequently bronze, initiating a period of wealth reflected in the second-millennium gravegoods of Britain and eastern Europe, the construction of Stonehenge, the metalwork of Germany and Hungary, and the first hillforts. The Iron Age of the first millennium BC was climaxed by the Celtic cultures of Hallstatt and La Téne famous for their hillforts, chariot burials, wheel-thrown pottery and coinage. This book traces the modem discovery of Europe's prehistory from the romanticism of the i yth century to the latest archaeological techniques and gives a full account of the state of our knowledge of it today.
Four visual stories describe in words and pictures the spectacular Boyne Valley Tombs in Ireland, the megahthic site of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, the Heuneberg Hillfort and the Hochmichele Chieftain's Grave on the Upper Danube, and the experimental farm at Butser Hill in Hampshire which reconstructs and examines in detail everyday life in Britain c. 300 BC.
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