Prehistoric Britain
Timothy Darvill
In this age of high technology, mass communication, and a passion to record even the most mundane details of everyday life in as many different ways as possible, it is hard to imagine a time when there was no writing, no sophisticated technology, and communication largely depended on word of mouth. Yet such conditions prevailed for half a million years or so before the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43, during which time some of the foundations for life and culture on the island of Britain as we know it today were laid down.
The absence of written records does not mean that nothing is known of these early societies in Britain. Quite the contrary. People interfered with the landscape during prehistory just as today, influencing its topography, building structures and monuments that were subsequently abandoned, and littering the countryside with discarded tools and piles of rubbish. In this way communities etched an enduring record of their actions into the landscape, and from what has survived over the millennia down to the present day something of these distant times can be reconstructed.
體積:
1
年:
2010
版本:
2
出版商:
Taylor & Francis, Inc.
語言:
english
頁數:
416
ISBN 10:
0203851943
ISBN 13:
9780203851944
文件:
PDF, 10.09 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2010
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