THE NEOLITHIC CULTURES OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by Stuart Piggott
Published by Cambridge University Press
in 1970
ISBN: 0521077818
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THE NEOLITHIC CULTURES OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by Stuart Piggott.
Stock no. 1827591
1970.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A Study of the Stone-using Agricultural Communities of Britain in the Second Millennium B.C. Originally published in 1954, this is a Cambridge University Press Library Edition re-issue. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w maps and plans. ISBN: 0521077818. Text block lightly browned with minor foxing to top. Contents clean. Price-cut blue dustwrapper is unevenly faded, lightly browned to spine.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword to New Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- List of Text-figures
- List of Plates
- Chapter I The Natural and Human Background of Neolithic Settlement in the British Isles
- Chapter II The Sites and Monuments of the Windmill Hill Culture
- Chapter III The Material Equipment, Origins and Relationships of the Windmill Hill Culture
- Chapter IV The Expansion of the Windmill Hill Culture
- Chapter V The Neolithic Colonization of the West and North: Chambered Tombs and their Builders
- Chapter VI The Clyde-Carlingford Culture in Western Scotland and Northern Ireland
- Chapter VII Passage-grave Builders in Ireland: The Boyne Culture
- Chapter VIII The Colonization of the Highlands and Islands: Chambered Tomb Builders in the Hebridean and Orkney-Cromarty Regions
- Chapter IX Miscellaneous Chambered-Tomb Groups and Other Related Sites in the British Isles
- Chapter X The Secondary Neolithic Cultures: The Flint and Stone Industries
- Chapter XI The Regional Communities of the Secondary Neolithic Cultures
- Chapter XII The Contents, Relationships and Chronology of the British Neolithic Cultures
- Bibliography
- Index