The Oxford illustrated history of prehistoric Europe /

The Oxford illustrated history of prehistoric Europe / edited by Barry Cunliffe - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001 - ix, 532 p [20 pages of plates] : ill., maps ; 25 cm

Originally published as: The Oxford illustrated prehistory of Europe, 1994

Includes bibliographical references and index

The People of Europe, 700,000-40,000 Years before the Present -- The Upper Palaeolithic Revolution -- The Mesolithic Age -- The First Farmers -- The transformation of Early Agrarian Europe: The Later Neolithic and Copper Ages, 4500-2500 BC -- The Palace Civilizations of Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece, 2000-1200 BC -- The Emergence of Élites: Earlier Bronze Age Europe, 2500-1300 BC -- The Collapse of Aegean Civilization at the End of the Late Bronze Age -- Reformation in Barbarian Europe, 1300-600 BC -- Iron Age Societies in Western Europe and Beyond, 800-140 BC -- Thracians, Scythians, and Dacians, 800 BC-AD 300 -- The Impact of Rome on Barbarian Society, 140 BC-AD 300 -- Barbarian Europe, AD 300-700

This is a comprehensive study of the early history, art and archaeology of Europe, ranging from the coming of Stone Age Man to the fall of the Roman Empire.

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