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Harold Peake. The Bronze Age and the Celtic World
The Bronze Age and the Celtic World
Table of Contents
PREFACE
LIST OF FIGURES AND MAPS
LIST OF PLATES
CHAPTER I. THE PROBLEM
CHAPTER II. THE FIRST INHABITANTS OF CELTIC LANDS
CHAPTER III. EARLY TRADE WITH CELTIC LANDS
CHAPTER IV. THE PROSPECTORS
CHAPTER V. THE CELTIC CRADLE
CHAPTER VI. MANY INVASIONS
CHAPTER VII. THE EVOLUTION OF THE LEAF-SHAPED SWORD
CHAPTER VIII. THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE LEAF-SHAPED SWORDS
CHAPTER IX. GREEK LANDS AND THE BASIS OF CHRONOLOGY
CHAPTER X. THE IRON SWORD
CHAPTER XI. A RECAPITULATION
CHAPTER XII. THE ARYAN CRADLE
CHAPTER XIII. P’S AND Q’S
CHAPTER XIV. THE WANDERINGS OF THE WIROS
CHAPTER XV. CONCLUSION
APPENDIX I. CHRONOLOGY
APPENDIX II. MATRILINEAR SUCCESSION IN GREECE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
PLATES
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Harold Peake
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The second maximum of the Würm glaciation seems to have culminated about 15,000 B.C.,[22] and about that time, or conceivably earlier, modern man first arrived in North Africa, if we may judge by the appearance of a fresh type of flint industry, known usually as Capsian.[23] Whence he came is uncertain. It has been suggested that he may have reached the north from tropical Africa,[24] but no evidence has been adduced in support of this hypothesis. It seems more likely that he came from Asia, probably by means of the Sinaitic peninsula, or possibly across the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb. This much is certain; about this time the Capsian culture is found extending along the north of the continent, from Egypt as far west at any rate as Algeria, and perhaps beyond, though at no point but one is it found far from the Mediterranean coast.[25] The one exception is in Egypt, where implements of this type have been found as far south as Luxor,[26] so that we may be satisfied that modern man in his earliest movements passed up the Nile valley at least as far as the First Cataract. It would seem probable that in Egypt the invaders came into touch with their Neanderthal predecessors, who retreated before them up the Nile valley towards Luxor, where Dr. Seligman has found implements of Le Moustier type more developed than any discovered elsewhere[27]; it is possible that some retreated further south and may even have reached Rhodesia.
Other of these Neanderthal refugees seem to have gone westward, and perhaps passed up the Italian land-bridge to western Europe; if so it was probably these, who had come into contact with the Capsian culture of North Africa, who were responsible for the Audi industry. They were followed before long by the invaders, and in Celtic lands at least were soon exterminated, though it is just possible that they survived to a later date further east.[28]
