Early Ireland : an introduction to Irish prehistory
Michael J. O'Kelly (Author), Claire O'Kelly (Contributor)
Engagingly written and packed with illustrations, Early Ireland offers an authoritative introduction to the riches of Irish prehistory - a span of eight thousand years from the end of the Ice Age to the first centuries of the Christian era.
Print Book, English, 1989
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1989
xiii, 375 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
9780521334891, 9780521336871, 0521334896, 0521336872
15657184
List of illustrations
Preface by Glyn Daniel
Acknowledgements
1. The Ice Age
2. The Mesolithic period
3. The Neolithic period
4. The late Neolithic/Beaker period
5. Megaliths
6. Single burials and earthen and stone enclosures
7. The Bronze Age
8. Bronze Age burial
9. Bronze Age settlement and stone monuments
10. The Iron Age
11. Later prehistoric settlement
12. Iron Age burial
Appendix A : radiocarbon dating
Appendix B : dendrochronology
Appendix C : pollen analysis
Appendix D : calibration of radiocarbon dates
Bibliography
Index