Antiquity, Volume 1Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford Antiquity Publications, 1927 - Archaeology "A periodical review of archaeology" (varies). |
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ancient anthropoid apes ANTIQUITY Antonine Wall archaeology belong Britain British broch Bronze Age cave Celtic centre century circle civilization copper cultivated culture Danube discovery ditch earlier earliest early Iron Age earthworks east Egypt England Ermine Street Etruscan Europe evidence excavation fact Fayum feet field flint forts fossil fragments frontier Glozel Greek ground Hadrian's Hadrian's Wall hills Hittite human illustrations implements important Indo-European inscriptions interest Iron Age island land later lynchets Magdalenian Maori Mesopotamia miles modern monuments mound Museum neolithic northern O. G. S. Crawford objects orientation origin palaeolithic perhaps period photographs place-names plate plough pottery prehistoric present primitive probably Professor R. G. COLLINGWOOD remains reproduced river road Roman Saxon Scotland seems settlements side slope stockade Stonehenge suggested sunrise theory tomb UNIV Upper Palaeolithic valley village Vinča Wansdyke
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Page 247 - The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY We, the undersigned Commissioners, appointed to make an Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions connected with or illustrative of the contemporary culture, civilization and conditions of life of the people...
Page 437 - The external appearance of an old cathedral cannot be but displeasing to the eye of every man who has any idea of propriety or proportion, even though he may be ignorant of architecture as a science...
Page 221 - From the still glassy lake that sleeps Beneath Aricia's trees — Those trees in whose dim shadow The ghastly priest doth reign, The priest who slew the slayer, And shall himself be slain...
Page 226 - He told me also that a ploughman toke up in the feldes of Harleston a 2 miles from Granteham a stone, under the which was a potte of brasse, and an helmet of gold, sette with stones in it, the which was presentid to Catarine princes dowager. There were bedes of silver in the potte, and writings corruptid.
Page 113 - Now, at a single bound, we have taken back our knowledge of Indian civilization some 3000 years earlier and have established the fact that in the 3rd millennium before Christ and even before that the peoples of the Punjab and Sind were living in well-built cities and were in possession of a relatively mature culture with a high standard of art and craftsmanship and a developed system of pictographic writing.
Page 148 - Whatever agencies may be assigned as the cause of evolution of a race, it should be at first most progressive at its point of original dispersal, and it will continue this progress at that point in response to whatever stimulus originally caused it and spread out in successive waves of migration, each wave a stage higher than the previous one. At any one time, therefore, the most advanced stages should be nearest the center of dispersal, the most conservative stages farthest from it.
Page 316 - They are sacrifices of truth to method; they are symptoms of a logical fallacy which underlies the whole book and has actually been erected into a principle. The fallacy lies in the attempt to characterize a culture by means of a single idea or tendency or feature, to deduce everything from this one central idea...
Page 369 - This new attitude of mind gradually dominated the upper classes, or at least the larger part of them. It is revealed by the spread among them of the various mystic religions, partly Oriental, partly Greek. The climax was reached in the triumph of Christianity. In this field the creative power of the ancient world was still alive, as is shown by such momentous achievements as the creation of the Christian church, the adaptation of Christian theology to the mental level of the higher classes, the creation...
Page 256 - AGRICOLA'S ROAD INTO SCOTLAND : The Great Roman Road from York to the Tweed. By JESSIE MOTHBRSOLE, author of "Hadrian's Wall, ' " The Saxon Shore,
Page 270 - Cambrians better than was known before, and he gave them the system and art of cultivating lands as is used at present; for before that time land was cultivated only with the mattock and over-tread plough, after the manner of the Irish.