This volume explores why natural places such as caves, mountains, springs and rivers
assumed a sacred character in European prehistory, and how the evidence for this can be …

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 …

Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland is the first volume to be devoted solely to the Irish Neolithic,
using an innovative landscape and anthropological perspective to provide significant new …

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 …

An essential new history of ancient Ireland and the Irish, written as an engrossing detective
story About eighty million people today can trace their descent back to the occupants of …

It may be surprising to learn that this book is the first ever survey of the Atlantic Iron Age: this
tradition is cited in archaeology frequently enough to seem firmly established, yet has never …

“This book provides a synthesis of what we currently know about how caves were used and
perceived by communities spanning the 10,000 years of human occupation of Ireland, from …

Looking back after a gap of several years to the period of the so-called 'Celtic Tiger'in Ireland
it can be difficult to remember the sheer scale and amount of archaeological work that …

War and conflict have been a harsh reality of human existence in recent world history.
Archaeological sources reveal this was also the case in prehistory, going back to the very …

Abstract During the later Bronze Age in Europe (c. 1500–800 BC), the archaeological
visibility of the production and consumption of bronze increases substantially. Yet there …