Reading the Irish LandscapeThis is the third revision of this seminal work. Co-authored by original author Frank Mitchell and now Michael Ryan, the result is a stunning collaboration between masters giving all the elements of the original book, modified, updated and further enhanced by the inclusion of a new narrative of Irish archaeology from the Stone Age to the Norman Invasion. Together they have successfully undertaken the daunting task of giving in one book the story of the shaping of the land from the beginning of time until now, by all tbe varying forces of nature, sea, climate, man and machine. The story takes in the shaping of the crust, the movement of glaciers, the first men and their primitive agriculture, their buildings and their effect on the forests, the growth of bogs, new migrations, the rise of the monasteries of the Early Christians and the castles of conquest, the devastation of war, urban growth, modern agriculture and afforestation, all set against the backdrop of the landscape, arguably one Ireland's most precious resources. |
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... indicating considerable warmth are found side - by - side with plant parts that indicate cold conditions . The extreme example is a beetle Bembidion grisvardi . Today , this beetle is only found in the south of France . However , at ...
... indicating considerable warmth are found side - by - side with plant parts that indicate cold conditions . The extreme example is a beetle Bembidion grisvardi . Today , this beetle is only found in the south of France . However , at ...
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Frank Mitchell, Michael Ryan. Illus . 64 Map to indicate some districts where remains of the giant deer ( Megaloceros ) have been found in north - west Europe . The open symbols indicate occurence in a cave deposit , the closed symbols ...
Frank Mitchell, Michael Ryan. Illus . 64 Map to indicate some districts where remains of the giant deer ( Megaloceros ) have been found in north - west Europe . The open symbols indicate occurence in a cave deposit , the closed symbols ...
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... indicate the movement of temperature and the second to indicate the movement of sea level . We can also draw a schematic pollen - diagram ( Illus . 78 ) to indicate the order in which the trees arrived in Ireland and give some ...
... indicate the movement of temperature and the second to indicate the movement of sea level . We can also draw a schematic pollen - diagram ( Illus . 78 ) to indicate the order in which the trees arrived in Ireland and give some ...
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The Ice Age 1700000 to 13000 years ago 335 | 35 |
The End of the Ice Age | 81 |
Response to Warm Conditions 98 886 | 98 |
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agricultural animals Antrim basin blanket bog bones Britain Bronze Age built burial cattle centre century clay clearance climate coast Cork court tombs crannog debris deposits ditch Donegal drumlins Dublin Earlier Bronze Age Early Medieval enclosure Europe evidence excavated farmers farming flint forest fossils giant deer glacial grassland gravel ground hazel houses Illus important Ireland Irish Sea Iron Age Island Kerry Knowth lake land landscape Later Bronze Age layer limestone Littletonian Lough material Mayo Meath megalithic megalithic tombs Mesolithic Midlandian million years ago monasteries monuments mound Mount Sandel Mountains Neolithic Newgrange passage tomb peat period phase plants pollen portal tomb pottery probably produced Radiocarbon dating raised bog rath record ridge river rock sea level settlement Shannon slope soil stone suggests surface survived temperature trees uplands valley vegetation warm stage wedge tombs Wicklow wood woodland