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Spain and Portugal; the prehistory of the Iberian peninsula / H.N. Savory.
LIBRA - Special GN835 .S35 1968
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Savory, H. N. (Hubert Newman), 1911-
- Series:
- Ancient peoples and places (Thames and Hudson) ; v. 61.
- Ancient peoples and places, 61
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prehistoric peoples--Spain.
- Prehistoric peoples.
- Spain.
- Prehistoric peoples--Portugal.
- Portugal.
- Spain--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Portugal--Antiquities.
- Hombre prehistórico--Portugal.
- España--Antiguedades.
- Portugal--Antiguedades.
- Local Subjects:
- Hombre prehistórico--Portugal.
- España--Antiguedades.
- Portugal--Antiguedades.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 324 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Praeger, [1968]
- Contents:
- I. Primitive hunters: Palaeolithic period
- The habitat
- Lower Palaeolithic man
- Middle Palaeolithic man
- Upper Palaeolithic man
- Upper Palaeolithic art
- II. Primitive hunters after the ice age c. 8000-3000 B.C.
- The Atlantic zone
- The Mediterranean zone
- Rock-shelter art
- The survival of rock-shelter art
- III. The first farmers, c. 5000-3000 B.C.
- The background
- The Neolithic in Spain and Portugal
- The cave culture c. 5000-2500 B.C.
- The Neolithic period in the North-West
- Neolithic villagers of the South-East c. 4500-3000 B.C.
- Neolithic villagers of the South-West c. 4000-3500 B.C.
- The burial customs of the first farmers
- IV. The Megalith builders
- General
- The first phase of the South-East c. 4000-2750 B.C.
- The first phases in the South-West c. 3750-2500 B.C.
- The North-West c. 3000-2000 B.C.
- The North-East c. 2750-1500 B.C.
- The symbolism of the Megalith builders
- The settlements and ceremonial enclosures
- Chronology
- V. Rock-cut tombs and the Tagus culture
- The Mediterranean background
- The early phase c. 3500-3000 B.C.
- The mature phase c. 3000-2500 B.C.
- The settlements
- VI. The first metal-workers
- The later 'Tholos' tombs in the East c. 2750-2250 B.C.
- The later 'Tholos' tombs and rock-cut tombs in the West c. 2750-200 B.C.
- The Millaran 'eye goddess'
- Painted pottery
- Metallurgy
- The end of the Millaran culture
- VII. The Beaker culture
- The Bell Beaker explosion c. 2250-2000 B.C.
- The origin of the Bell Beaker c. 3500-2250
- The maritime Beakers c. 2250-200 B.C.
- The later Beaker wares c. 2000-800 B.C.
- The Bell Beaker culture
- Beaker metallurgy
- VIII. The early Bronze Age
- The Argaric culture c. 1700-1000 B.C.
- The South-West
- Valencia
- Catalonia and the Pyrenean area
- Central Portugal and the Meseta
- The North-West
- IX. The late Bronze Age and the dawn of history
- The native culture c. 1000-700 B.C.
- The Atlantic Bronze Age (first phase) c. 1000-700 B.C.
- The Urnfield invaders of the North-East c. 750-500 B.C.
- Tartessus and the 'Carp's-Tongue' complex c. 700-500 B.C.
- The transition to the early Iron Age c. 700-500 B.C.
- X. The Celtic Iron Age
- The historical background
- The Celtic invasions
- The native reaction
- The Meseta cemeteries
- Settlements
- The final phase.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-271).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Savory, H.N. (Hubert Newman), 1911- Spain and Portugal.
- OCLC:
- 339851
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