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Description for Britain Begins
Paperback. The story of the origins of the British and the Irish peoples, from the end of the last Ice Age around 10,000BC to the eve of the Norman Conquest - who they were, where they came from, and how they related to one another. Num Pages: 568 pages, 140 halftones, 152 maps and figures. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3B; 3D; 3F; HBJD1; HBLA; HBLC; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 190 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1190.
The last Ice Age, which came to an end about 12,000 years ago, swept the bands of hunter gatherers from the face of the land that was to become Britain and Ireland, but as the ice sheets retreated and the climate improved so human groups spread slowly northwards, re-colonizing the land that had been laid waste. From that time onwards Britain and Ireland have been continuously inhabited and the resident population has increased from a few hundreds to more than 60 million. Britain Begins is nothing less than the story of the origins of the British and the ... Read more
The last Ice Age, which came to an end about 12,000 years ago, swept the bands of hunter gatherers from the face of the land that was to become Britain and Ireland, but as the ice sheets retreated and the climate improved so human groups spread slowly northwards, re-colonizing the land that had been laid waste. From that time onwards Britain and Ireland have been continuously inhabited and the resident population has increased from a few hundreds to more than 60 million. Britain Begins is nothing less than the story of the origins of the British and the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
568
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
1205g
Number of Pages
568
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199679454
SKU
V9780199679454
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3
About Barry Cunliffe
Barry Cunliffe taught archaeology in the Universities of Bristol and Southampton and was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2008, thereafter becoming Emeritus Professor. He has excavated widely in Britain (Fishbourne, Bath, Danebury, Hengistbury Head, Brading) and in the Channel Islands, Brittany, and Spain, and has been President of the Council for British Archaeology ... Read more
Reviews for Britain Begins
There are clear and helpful illustrations, and there is enough information here to fill any semester-long course on the history of England, or rather Albion.
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