Tomb of the Eagles : Death and Life in a Stone Age Tribe
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0941533050
ISBN-13
9780941533058
Publisher
New Amsterdam Books
Imprint
New Amsterdam Books
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 21st, 1998
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
368 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 14.10 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Society & culture: general
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In Tomb of the Eagles John Hedges describes vividly the activities of a tribe in Isbister in the Orkneys which had as its totem the magnificent white-tailed sea eagle.
Isbister in the Orkneys is one of those extraordinary archaeological sites where the remains of Neolithic man and his works have been so well preserved that they give us an amazingly clear picture of the life and people of 5000 years ago. In Tomb of the Eagles John W. Hedges describes vividly the activities of a tribe which had as its totem the magnificent white-tailed sea eagle. For these people the building and use of the tomb was symbol and expression of their identity. It was here that the dead joined their ancestors–but only after the flesh had been stripped from their bones. It was here, too, that offerings were made. Here broken pots were piled; fish, eagles and joints of meat mouldered; and the hands of the living sorted the heaped bones of the dead.
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