Main entry:

Piggott, Stuart.

Title & Author:

Scotland before history / Stuart Piggott ; with a gazetteer of ancient monuments by Graham Ritchie.

Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©1982.

Description:

vii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Radiocarbon dating, the physical setting, access routes, forest clearance, the discipline and the limits of archaeology -- Climatic change, pollen analysis, changing environment, Mesolithic settlers, the first farmers, the axe trade, Orkney and Shetland, chambered tombs, henges and ditches -- The impact of metal, burial practices, clothing, Bronze Age Europe, Bronze Age Wessex, Bronze Age Scotland, the late Bronze Age -- Iron Age Celts, hill-forts, settlements, the economy, artistry and ornament, the structure of society, the Roman occupation -- The old and the new, continuities -- Gazetteer of monuments.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0852243480 (pbk.)
9780852243480 (pbk.)

Subject:

Prehistoric peoples Scotland.
Sociétés préhistoriques Écosse.
Antiquities
Prehistoric peoples
Archäologisches Denkmal
Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Führer
Scotland Antiquities.
Écosse Antiquités.
Scotland
Schottland
11030 civilization Scottish prehistoric
Man, Prehistoric Scotland

Added entries:

Ritchie, J. N. G. (James Neil Graham)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 38392
Call No.: PO1811; ID:88-B9233
Status: Available