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The Illustrated archaeology of Ireland / edited by Michael Ryan.

Title
The Illustrated archaeology of Ireland / edited by Michael Ryan.
Publication
Dublin : Country House, 1991.

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Additional Authors
Ryan, Michael.
Description
224 p. : ill., maps (some col.); 28 cm.
Subject
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Ireland
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Northern Ireland
  • Ireland > Antiquities
  • Northern Ireland > Antiquities
Note
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • The nature of archaeology / Michael Ryan -- Dating the past / Michael Baillie -- The landscape of Ireland / Michael Ryan -- Rescue archaeology / Margaret Gowen -- Underwater archaeology / Nessa O'Connor -- Wetland archaeology / Ann Lynch -- Early environments and the first settlers / Michael O'Connell -- The geology and raw materials of the Stone Age / John Jackson -- Flint and stone tools / Elizabeth Anderson -- The Mesolithic period / Peter C. Woodman -- The Neolithic environment / Michael O'Connell -- The first farmers / Alsion Sheridan -- The later Neolithic period / Seán Ó Nualláin -- Neolithic settlements / Eoin Grogan -- The environment and human activity in Bronze Age Ireland / Michael O'Connell -- The earlier Bronze Age / John Waddell -- The geology and raw materials of the Bronze Age / John Jackson -- Copper mining in south-west Ireland / William F. O'Brien -- Metal production / Laurence Flanagan -- Bronze Age goldwork / Mary Cahill -- Death in the earlier Bronze Age / John Waddell -- Stone circles, stone rows, boulder-burials and standing stones / Seán Ó Nualliáin -- Daily life in the later Bronze Age / George Eogan -- Bronze Age settlements / Martin G Doody -- The geology and raw materials of the Iron Age / John Jackson -- The early Iron Age / Barry Raftery -- The earliest history of Ireland / Richard Warner.
  • Crannogs / Eamon P. Kelly -- St. Patrick to the Vikings / Michael Ryan -- Early medieval houses / Chris Lynn -- Early Irish Christianity / Dáibhí Ó Cróinín -- Early Irish monasteries / Michael Ryan -- Early monastic sites / Leo Swan -- Elements of manuscript production in the Middle Ages / Bernard Meehan -- Early medieval art / Michael Ryan -- Art during the Viking invasions / Michael Ryan -- Viking age art influences / Raghnall Ó Floinn -- Dublin in the Viking age / Patrick Wallace -- Waterford in the late Viking age / Maurice Hurley -- The 11th/12th century renaissance in metalwork / Raghnall Ó Floinn / The Romanesque style in Ireland / Roger Stalley -- Gothic art and architecture / Roger Stalley -- Anglo-Norman towns / John Bradley -- Rural settlements / Terry Barry -- Anglo-Norman fortresses David Sweetman / Later medieval castles / D. Newman Johnson -- Later medieval decorative arts / Raghnall Ó Floinn -- The archaeology of the Munster plantation / Denis Power -- The archaeology of the Ulster plantation / Brian Lacey -- Changes in living standards in the 17th century / Mairéad Dunlevy.
ISBN
0946172250 :
LCCN
^^^91225368^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library