Bill Finlayson
Autor/a de Wild Harvesters: The First People of Scotland
Obres de Bill Finlayson
Obres associades
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant: c. 8000-332 BCE (Oxford Handbooks) (2014) — Col·laborador — 26 exemplars
The Development of Pre-State Communities in the Ancient Near East: Studies in Honour of Edgar Peltenburg (BANEA… (2010) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
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- Obres
- 7
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- 2
- Membres
- 37
- Popularitat
- #390,572
- Ressenyes
- 1
- ISBN
- 15
- Llengües
- 1
Other books in the series include
* Farmers, Temples and Tombs: Scotland in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age;
* Settlement and Sacrifice: The Later Prehistoric People of Scotland, and
* A Gathering of Eagles: Scenes from Roman Scotland.
"This is the story of Scotland's very first people. From about 8000BC to 4000BC migrant hunter gatherers were slowly moving north as the great ice sheets of the last Ice Age gradually melted.
"These peoples did not use
metals, farm, or build great monuments, but their success in harvesting the resources available to them allowed them to flourish for thousand of years. The land they lived in was far different from the Scotland of today, great swathes of coastline were under water and much that is now sea was the land.
Bill Finlayson weaves a story of the ways of life and beliefs of these people often unfairly caricatured as squat, grunting savages. They have left but few traces on the landscape - the great shell mounds of Oronsay, cave shelters, scattered stone tools and hearths - but these few traces represent the first sign of man in Scotland. "… (més)