A Study of the Bronze Age Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland and its Associated Grave-Goods - Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology

Marc Notes: Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon P., 1912.; John Abercromby, a soldier and keen archaeologist, published this two-volume work in 1912. It is a chronological survey of British and Irish ceramics from the late Neolithic to the end of the Bronze Age, classifying these by type and geographical area, and examining the goods associated with them in burials. Volume two discusses cinerary urns, and the grave goods, including the so-called 'pygmy urns', associated with them. Brief Description: A two-volume 1912 survey of British and Irish ceramics from the late Neolithic to the end of the Bronze Age. Table of Contents: 1. Cinerary urns; 2. Pottery types; 3. Type 2, small cinerary or pygmy vessels; 4. Age of pygmy vessels; 5. Type 3, southern groups 1, 2, 3; 6. Relative age of southern types 3, 4; 7. Pottery types, area 2; 8. Pottery types, area 1; 9. Ethnographical; 10. Stonehenge; 11. Who were the brachycephalic invaders?; 12. Limits of the bronze age; 13. Relative chronology of pottery of bronze age I-V; Plates.