People of the wetlands : bogs, bodies, and lake-dwellers / Bryony and John Coles.
| Author/creator | Coles, Bryony |
| Other author | Coles, J. M. (John M.) |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 1989. |
| Description | 215 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Ancient peoples and places ; v. 106 Ancient peoples and places (Thames and Hudson) ; v. 106. ^A239105 |
| Contents | Decades of discovery. Early warnings -- Two fruitful decades : 1855-1875 -- Extending the search. Irish crannogs -- Robert Munro and the Scottish crannogs -- Ehenside Tarn -- Glastonbury -- Terps : mounds of the north European coasts -- Court of the Pile-dwellers -- Reinterpreting the lake-dwellings -- New projects in northern Europe -- Living by the sea. America -- Late Mesolithic coastal sites of northern Europe -- Britain -- North European coastal Neolithic -- Later prehistory -- Pioneers of the inland waters. Freshwater foragers -- Foraging farmers -- Timber and time, or peripatetic peasants -- Settling down? -- Neolithic material culture -- Lake-dwellers. Circum-Alpine chronology -- Settlements -- How long was a village occupied? -- Subsistence -- Bronze Age material culture -- Riverside and floodplain -- Fens and Flag Fen -- Biskupin -- Glastonbury and Meare -- New work on crannogs -- Elsewhere in the world : a postscript on potential -- Reaching the far side. Travel and transport over the bogs -- Sweet Track -- Corlea : an Irish roadway -- Tibirke roads -- Bourtanger Moor -- Lower Saxony -- Travel and transport upon the water -- Bogs and bodies. Into the pool -- Gifts to the bogs -- Tollund man -- Preservation -- Clothing -- Death in the bog -- Ritual deposits -- War booty -- Wooden figures. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-210) and index. |
| Terms of use | Current Copyright Fee: GBP20.00 0. |
| LCCN | 89050546 |
| ISBN | 0500021120 |
| ISBN | 9780500021125 |
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