Those communities that lived in Britain and Ireland ca. 800 BC to AD 100 represent
particularly well-researched examples of the complex agrarian, nonurban, societies with …

Sited at the furthest limits of the Neolithic revolution and standing at the confluence of the
two great sea routes of prehistory, Britain and Ireland are distinct from continental Europe for …

Britain has been inhabited by humans for over half a million years, during which time there
were a great many changes in lifestyles and in the surrounding landscape. This book, now …

The Iron Age in Northern Britain examines the archaeological evidence for earlier Iron Age
communities from the southern Pennines to the Northern and Western Isles and the impact …

The Celtic World is a detailed and comprehensive study of the Celts from the first evidence
of them in the archaeological and historical record to the early post-Roman period. The …

The image of the Celt is one of the most emotive in the European past, evoking pictures of
warriors, feasts, and gentle saints and scholars. This comprehensive and fully-illustrated …

From the Callanish stones and the great ritual monuments of the Neolithic, the broch towers
and the wheelhouses of the Iron Age, through to the arrival of the Norse and the Lords of the …

Early historic Scotland-from the fifth to the tenth century AD-was home to a variety of diverse
peoples and cultures, all competing for land and supremacy. Yet by the eleventh century it …

Widely regarded as major visible field monuments of the Iron Age, hillforts are central to an
understanding of later prehistoric communities in Britain and Europe from the later Bronze …

This new approach to Highland history before the Clearances draws attention to little-
studied yet important economic and social processes within the Highland clan system and …