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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Page 161
... seems to have been a period of isolation rather than of contact . The simplest explanation is that we have failed so ... seem to imply colonisation from there . It is likely that the earliest farming settlers came via the shortest sea ...
... seems to have been a period of isolation rather than of contact . The simplest explanation is that we have failed so ... seem to imply colonisation from there . It is likely that the earliest farming settlers came via the shortest sea ...
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... seem to be in an inhospitable situation but the area round about would have been congenial to farming at the time ... seems to have succeeded earlier structures . Thus the argument runs that increasing skill in construction , perhaps ...
... seem to be in an inhospitable situation but the area round about would have been congenial to farming at the time ... seems to have succeeded earlier structures . Thus the argument runs that increasing skill in construction , perhaps ...
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... seem to have belonged to animals thrown intact into the water . The facial bones of a young man , apparently deliberately cut off , were also found . This all seems to emphasise the sacrificial nature of the material . Radiocarbon dates ...
... seem to have belonged to animals thrown intact into the water . The facial bones of a young man , apparently deliberately cut off , were also found . This all seems to emphasise the sacrificial nature of the material . Radiocarbon dates ...
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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