Tomb of the Eagles: Death and Life in a Stone Age Tribe (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Tomb of the Eagles 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.
Full description- Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
- Published: 21 April 1998
- Format: Paperback 256 pages
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- Categories: Society & Culture: General | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Archaeology
- ISBN 13: 9780941533058 ISBN 10: 0941533050
- Sales rank: 711,252
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Full description for Tomb of the Eagles
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 ancestorsDbut 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.
