The making of Ireland's landscape since the Ice Age / Valerie Hall.
Material type: TextPublication details: Doughcloyne, Wilton, Cork : Collins Press, 2011.Description: xii, 180 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 24 cm. ; pbkISBN:- 9781848891159 (pbk.)
- 9781848891159:
- 554.15
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Lending | Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending | 554.15 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 73678 | |
General Lending | Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending | 554.15 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 73679 |
CW098
Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-175) and index.
Sources of evidence: clocks and fossils -- The ice age ends -- New plants and animals -- The environment of the first Irish people -- Influence of early farming -- Landscape of the Irish Bronze Age -- Landscape in late prehistoric and early historic times -- Origins of modern Irish Landscape -- Recent to future landscapes
This title tells the story of Ireland's changing landscape beginning about 14,000 years ago as the last Ice Age ended. Since then the interplay of natural forces and human hands on the landscape, its plants and animals, produced the landscape this book describes and explains.
17.99