A Study of the Bronze Age Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland and its Associated Grave-Goods 2 Volume Set
A Study of the Bronze Age Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland and its Associated Grave-Goods 2 Volume Set
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USDThe 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. In Volume 1, burials are considered, while Volume 2 surveys cinerary urns and their associated smaller pottery, and in both, the ethnography of skeletal remains is considered.
Product details
March 2015Multiple copy pack
9781108082570
416 pages
295 × 206 × 23 mm
1.02kg
110 b/w illus. 8 maps
Temporarily unavailable - available from April 2023
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Preface
- 1. Introductory
- 2. British ceramic
- 3. Continental and British ornamentation compared
- 4. Objects found with beaker interments
- 5. Ethnographical and historical
- 6. Colonization and diffusion of the invaders
- 7. The food-vessel class
- 8. Pottery types
- 9. Pottery types (cont.)
- 10. Pottery types (cont.)
- 11. Ornamentation
- 12. Objects found with food vessels
- 13. Ethnographical section
- 14. Ethnographical
- Plates. Volume 2:
- 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.
