Ancestral journeys : the peopling of Europe from the first venturers to the Vikings / Jean Manco.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Manco, Jean, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Europeans--Origin.
• Ethnology--Europe.
• Ethnology.
• Emigration and immigration.
• History.
• Europeans.
• Europe.
• Antiquities, Prehistoric--Europe.
• Antiquities, Prehistoric.
• Human beings--Migrations.
• Prehistoric peoples--Europe.
• Prehistoric peoples.
• Europeans--History.
• Europe--Emigration and immigration--History.
• Europe--Antiquities.
• Antiquities.
• Europe--History--To 476.
• Europe--History--476-1492.

Physical Description:

312 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Thames & Hudson, 2015.

Summary:

Who are the Europeans? Where did they come from? In recent years scientific advances have yielded a mass of new data, turning cherished ideas upside down. The idea of migration in prehistory, so long out of favour, is back on the agenda. Visions of continuity now have to give way to a more dynamic view of Europe's past, with one wave of migration followed by another, from the first human arrivals to the Vikings. This pioneering book brings together for the first time the latest genetic evidence and combines it with archaeology and linguistics to produce a new history of Europe.

Contents:

• 1 Who Are the Europeans? 8
• 2 Migration: Principles and Problems 14
• 3 The First Europeans 49
• 4 Mesolithic Hunters and Fishermen 60
• 5 The First Farmers 72
• 6 Dairy Farming 95
• 7 The Copper Age 106
• 8 The Indo-European Family 122
• 9 Indo-Europeans and Genetics 145
• 10 Beaker Folk to Celts and Italics 158
• 11 Minoans and Mycenaeans 171
• 12 Iron Age Traders and Warriors 178
• 13 Etruscans and Romans 192
• 14 The Great Wandering 200
• 15 Enter the Slavs 224
• 16 Bulgars and Magyars 235
• 17 Vikings 241
• 18 Epilogue 262.

ISBN:

• 0500292078
• 9780500292075

OCLC:

930401460

Publisher Number:

40025793079