The Bronze Age and the Celtic World is a 1922 history based on Harold Peake's lectures at Aberystwyth. It surveys Bronze Age Europe and the Celtic peoples, using archaeology to discuss early migrations and cultural contacts. It offers a window into how scholars of the time approached prehistory.
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Opening of the book
THE BRONZE AGE AND THE CELTIC WORLD
THE BRONZE AGE AND THE CELTIC WORLD BY HAROLD PEAKE, F.S.A. LONDON: BENN BROTHERS, LIMITED 8 BOUVERIE STREET, E.C.4 1922
PRINTED AND MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN BY HEADLEY
BROTHERS,
18, DEVONSHIRE STREET, E.C.2; AND ASHFORD, KENT.
DEDICATION
To the anonymous benefactors whose liberality made possible the delivery of these lectures this work is gratefully dedicated.
PREFACE
THE substance of the following pages was delivered in
February last in a series of six lectures at The University
College of Wales, Aberystwyth. In volume form the matter has been somewhat re-arranged and the latter part expanded.
So many attempts have been made during the last century and a quarter to locate the Aryan cradle and to trace the wanderings of the Wiros, that it may be considered presumptuous for the author to venture on a further suggestion. He can only plead that most of the previous attempts have been made by philologists, usually with little or no archæological experience, while the discoveries of the last quarter of a century have placed the inquirer to-day in a position which is vastly superior to that of most of his predecessors. The evolution and distribution of the leaf-shaped
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