Facing the ocean: The Atlantic and its peoples 8000 BC-AD 1500
Cunliffe, B. (2001). Facing the ocean: The Atlantic and its peoples 8000 BC-AD 1500. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 0-19-924019-1. 600 pp.
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| Keywords |
A, Atlantic
Historical account
Atlantic Ocean [Marine Regions]
Marine/Coastal |
| Abstract |
This work focuses on the western rim of Europe - the Atlantic façade - an area stretching from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Isles of Shetland. We are shown how original and inventive the communities were, and how they maintained their own distinctive identities - often over long spans. From the hunter-gatherers, c. 8000 BC, to the voyages of discovery c. 1500 AD, the author uses the latter half of this millennium as a well-studied test case to help the reader better understand what went before. The illustrations show how this picturesque part of Europe has many striking physical similarities. Old hard rocks confront the ocean creating promontories and capes familiar to sailors throughout the millennia. |
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