From Hunter-Gatherers to Early Christians
The Archaeology of Ancient Societies in the Ll?n Peninsula
- 272 pages
- English
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From Hunter-Gatherers to Early Christians
The Archaeology of Ancient Societies in the Ll?n Peninsula
About this book
Jutting out some thirty miles into the Irish Sea, from the western edge of Snowdonia, the Ll?n Peninsula, in north-west Wales, is renowned for its stunning beaches and countryside, with much of its landscape designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The peninsula is also home to a remarkable and abundant collection of archaeological sites and monuments, some of national importance, which bear witness to the ancient societies who once inhabited this narrow finger of land on the western fringe of Britain. This abundantly illustrated book examines this rich corpus of archaeological evidence, beginning with the faint but fascinating traces that Mesolithic hunter-gatherers have left in the landscape of the Ll?n Peninsula and ending in the early medieval period, with about 9, 000 years of human habitation thus covered in its pages. In the course of the book, we will encounter a wealth of fascinating archaeological evidence, which includes impressive megalithic tombs and an axe 'factory' from the Neolithic; burial mounds and mysterious standing stones from the Early Bronze Age; rural settlements and magnificent hillforts occupied in the Iron Age and Romano–British period; and memorial stones erected by early Christian communities. Much more besides will be found in the pages of this volume, which throws considerable light on the ancient peoples of the Ll?n Peninsula, and the rich archaeological heritage of this special part of the United Kingdom, which has much to offer those who are interested in the distant lives of our ancestors.
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Table of contents
- Cover page
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. A Bough of Country Suspended Between Sea and Sky
- 2. The Last Hunter-Gatherers
- 3. An Outstanding Manifestation of Neolithic Culture
- 4. Neolithic Sites and Finds
- 5. Ritual and Funerary Evidence of the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age
- 6. Roundhouses, Pyrolithic Technology, and Artefacts c. 2500–800 BC
- 7. Double Ringwork Enclosures
- 8. Hillforts
- 9. Roundhouses and Romans
- 10. The Archaeology of Early Christianity
- Bibliography
- Backcover