The Slavs.
Series: Ancient peoples and places, v. 74; Ancient peoples and places -- v. 74
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Published: 1971
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780500020722
Subjects: Slavs.; Slavic antiquities.
Description: 240 p. illus., maps. 21 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 189-195.

Gift - B. Holmes.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations … 7; title: Preface … 12; title: Introduction … 14; title: ◦; title: I. ORIGINS … 17; title: ◦; title: II. THE NORTH CARPATHIAN CULTURE DURING THE BRONZE AND EARLY IRON AGES … 27; title: ◦; title: Chronological outline … 27; title: Settlement patterns … 55; title: Metallurgy … 56; title: Pottery … 56; title: Funeral practices … 57; title: ◦; title: III. SLAVIC TRIBAL NAMES IN HISTORIC RECORDS OF THE FIRST CENTURIES AD … 58; title: ◦; title: IV. THE PROTO-SLAVS DURING THE SARMATIAN AND GOTHO-GEPID EXPANSIONS … 63; title: ◦; title: The westward expansion of the Sarmatians … 63; title: The Zarubinets Complex, 200 BC – AD 100 ... 66; title: The Goths north of the Black Sea and the Chernjakhovo Complex … 67; title: Old Germanic loan words in Slavic … 77; title: ◦; title: V. THE RECOVERY. EARLY SLAVIC SETTLEMENT IN THE UKRAINE AND RUSSIA … 80; title: ◦; title: VI. SLAVIC MIGRATIONS TO CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE BALKAN PENINSULA … 98; title: ◦; title: Historical evidence … 98; title: Linguistic evidence … 108; title: Archaeological evidence … 109; title: ◦; title: VII. SOCIAL STRUCTURE … 133; title: ◦; title: The joint family … 133; title: Kinship terminology … 137; title: Social organization … 140; title: ◦; title: VIII. RELIGION … 151; title: ◦; title: Temples … 151; title: Gods and their functions … 159; title: ◦; title: Notes on the text … 171; title: Select bibliography … 189; title: Sources of illustrations … 195; title: The plates … 197; title: Notes on the plates … 229; title: Index … 234