1st Edition
Life and Death in the Bronze Age An Archaeologist's Field-work
By Cyril Fox
Copyright 1959
278 Pages
by
Routledge
278 Pages
by
Routledge
278 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is a great work by one of the pioneers of modern archaeology. The period covered is from 1700 to 700 B.C. and is mainly concerned with the author’s field work in western Britain. It deals with burial ritual – dances, processions, "houses of the dead", the objects deposited, the building of the barrow; and it shows by line drawings and photographs how scientific excavation nowadays is planned... Read more
Preface. Introduction 1. A Barrow in North Wales – Neolithic-Bronze Age Transition, c. 1700 B.C., and Secondaries 2. a). Field Archaeology in West Wales, 1925-6 b). Pottery from Burials in West and North Wales, 1925-6 3. Barrow-Digging in West and South Wales – Early Bronze Age 4. The ‘Food-Vessel’ Phase of Culture in Britain 5. Composite (Earth and Stone) Barrows in Glamorgan – Early and Middle Bronze Age 6. Turf Barrows in South Wales – Middle and Late Bronze Age 7. Commentary
Biography
Fox, Cyril
