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Axes, warriors and windmills : recent archaeological discoveries in north Fingal by Christine Baker; Fingal (Dublin, Ireland : County). County Council is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amid the hustle and bustle of modern life we rarely stop to think and wonder about the past and the people who have gone before us. Even if we’re interested in our own family history we can only get information for the last few hundred years at best. Yet the Fingal we see every day, the landscape of city, town, village, coast and countryside, is the result of a very long history of settlement. Countless generations have lived their lives before us in Fingal. They have hunted and fished, worked the land, built our towns and villages, brought industry and commerce, lived and died just as we do today. In doing so they have shaped the landscape we see today. People have been living in Fingal since the end of the last ice age, 10,000 years ago. Yet we know very little about the many societies and cultures which have shaped Fingal for most of this 10,000 year period. We only have written records spanning the last 1500 years. Our only way of finding out about this distant past is by examining the landscape, with its many historic sites and features, which we have inherited. This is what archaeology is all about. In recent years, a large number of archaeological investigations have been un

Who reads Axes, warriors and windmills : recent archaeological discoveries in north Fingal?

Author

Christine Baker; Fingal (Dublin, Ireland : County). County Council

Publisher

Fingal County Council

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780954910396

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities