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Ireland's first settlers : time and the Mesolithic /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woodman, Peter C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015.
Subjects:
Prehistoric peoples > Ireland.
Mesolithic period > Ireland.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Ireland.
Ireland > Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Mesolithic period.
Prehistoric peoples.
Ireland.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. In the beginning
  • Why?
  • Understanding Ireland's environment and ecology
  • It's about time
  • Part II. Laying the foundations
  • Where did it all come from?
  • Chronology, flint facts and other artefacts
  • Part III. Often an island too far
  • Anything earlier?
  • The first arrivals
  • Settling in
  • Part IV. Lifeway
  • Patterns in the landscape
  • Food, sustenance and procurement
  • Part V. Where to now
  • A critical analysis of fieldwork and methodologies
  • Life and death.