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Facing the Ocean by Barry Cunliffe6/29/2023 ![]() Re: Facing the Ocean by Barry Cunliffe by Anonymous on Saturday, 15 December 2007 Go back to top of page Comments are owned by the poster. ![]() "Facing the Ocean by Barry Cunliffe" | Login/Create an Account | 7 News and Comments This will be the standard work for years to come. It is priced at £15.99, (less at Amazon). With 600 pages, it is worth buying for the illustrations and maps alone. ![]() With chapters on the emergence of an Atlantic identity, ancestors and ritual landscapes, migrants and settlers, trading links with the Mediterranean, the impact of Rome and the Saxon and Viking invasions - it is a monumental work indeed. Here we can see the common cultures of the megalithic builders without trying to understand them from within the myopic boxes of modern national boundaries. Its real strength is that it puts aside national boundaries and instead, looks at how people have navigated and occupied the islands and mainland coasts of the Atlantic Ocean. Beautifully illustrated throughout, it covers a period from 8000 BC to 1500 AD. It is a region with a shared prehistory, identity and culture - but a region rarely viewed as a whole.īarry Cunliffe is Professor of European Archaeology at Oxford and this book is his crowning achievement. It looks at Britain and Western Europe as a single region facing the Atlantic Ocean. ![]() This is a book of tremendous vision, depth and breadth. ![]() Submitted by Thorgrim on Friday, 20 August 2004 Page Views: 5853 Reviews Kermario alignements submitted by JJ ![]()
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