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Title: Beyond the Ice: Creswell Crags and its place in a wider European context
Condition: New
Author: Matthew Beresford
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1905739508
EAN: 9781905739509
ISBN: 9781905739509
Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
Genre: History
Release Date: 20/03/2012
Description: Since the discovery of Britain’s first Ice Age cave art in 2003, the site of Creswell Crags has gained international recognition as one of Britain’s leading Ice Age sites. For the first time the history of the site is brought together in one accessible volume. Documenting the early fieldwork at the site it uncovers antiquarian discoveries such as the famous horse engraving, excavations in the 1920s that saw our understanding of our early ancestors take shape, discusses the demise of the Neanderthals and the emergence of Modern Man, and looks at how Creswell Crags grew as a heritage attraction of potential World Heritage Status. In Beyond the Ice, Matthew Beresford examines how our ancestors lived, how they hunted, examines the tools and weapons they made and, most importantly, what they left behind. The book also challenges the term ‘Creswellian’, an isolated British culture that occupied the fringe lands of western Europe, and instead offers hard evidence for viewing Creswell Crags and its inhabitants as being part of a vast Ice Age world. Finally, it looks at what happened right at the end of the last Ice Age and examines what the changes in climate and landscape meant to our early ancestors. Beyond the Ice will appeal as much to the general reader as it will to the student or scholar, as it raises fundamental questions and offers up interpretations that apply to us all.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 245mm
Item Length: 175mm
Item Width: 10mm
Item Weight: 241g
Release Year: 2012

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