tailieunhanh - The Bronze Age in Ireland

This book deals with the Bronze Age principally from the point of view of the implements and weapons in use in Ireland during that period. It is unnecessary to state that the materials for writing anything like a full account of the civilization or political organization during the Bronze Age do not exist; and even the ethnological affinities of the dominant race that inhabited Ireland during this period are doubtful. All that can be said is that there was apparently no gap between the end of the Neolithic Period and the transitional Copper to Bronze Period. Stone weapons continued in use side by side with. | The Bronze Age in Ireland by George Coffey 1 CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII The Bronze Age in Ireland by George Coffey The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Bronze Age in Ireland by George Coffey This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or The Bronze Age in Ireland by George Coffey 2 re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Bronze Age in Ireland Author George Coffey Release Date October 11 2008 EBook 26880 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BRONZE AGE IN IRELAND Produced by Chris Curnow Joseph Cooper Anne Storer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Transcriber s Note The term halberd and halbert have both been used on numerous occasions. Halbert is a variant of Halberd and has been left as printed in the original text. THE BRONZE AGE IN IRELAND THE BRONZE AGE IN IRELAND BY GEORGE COFFEY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY HONORARY FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND KEEPER OF IRISH ANTIQUITIES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM AND PROFESSOR . DUBLIN WITH ELEVEN PLATES AND EIGHTY-EIVE ILLUSTRATIONS HODGES FIGGIS CO. LIMITED 104 GRAFTON STREET DUBLIN SIMPKIN MARSHALL CO. LONDON 1913 PRINTED AT THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY PRESS BY PONSONBY AND GIBBS. PREFACE In this book on the Bronze Age in Ireland I have collected and collated all my work on the period. Much of it I have already published in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy and elsewhere. I have long felt the need of a book on the Bronze Age in Ireland as hitherto none has appeared dealing adequately with the .