First delivered as lectures at Aberystwyth, this study tries to locate the cradle of the Celtic-speaking peoples through archaeology rather than philology. Peake follows early traders and prospectors, successive invasions, and above all the evolution and spread of the bronze leaf-shaped sword, tying them to Greek chronology and the coming of iron.
An ambitious period piece of 1920s prehistory; its talk of Nordic races reflects the assumptions of its day, not modern scholarship. Download the free EPUB.