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Wales and the Welsh People
A
History of Wales from the Earliest Times
(Paperback - 17 Dec 2010)
Robert D. Morritt
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This book covers
a period from the earliest human remains of the ‘Lower Paleolithic’ period (230,000 years ago,and of
inhabitation by Mesolithic hunters after the last Ice Age in Wales (c. 8000
BCE).
Migration to Britain (evidenced by
Lepontic inscriptions of the
6th century BCE and from
modern genetic research.indicating the
origins of immigrantsfrom such areas as  Celtiberians from the Iberian peninsula .Also included are
descriptions of Megalithic
tombs, and the advent of metal
tools from the early to the late
Bronze Age of c.1400-750BCE).
The "Insular Celtic hypothesis" is considered, the theory that Brythonic and Goidelic languages evolved together in those
islands, having a common ancestor. A theory that that lumps the Brythonic
languages and Gaulish (P-Celtic) on one side and the Goidelic languages with
Celtiberian (Q-Celtic)
The book further mentions
early tribes such as the The Deceangli Celtic tribes living in Wales , prior to
the Roman invasion of the island.
Early battles by the Welsh against the English (and vice-versa)
together with a history of earlyt revolts ( Maidog ap Llewelyn ,1295 AD) also
several early Welsh-English battles (Maes Moydog etc. The uprising of Owain Glyndŵr reputedly crowned ‘Prince of Wales’, The
book describes the economic growth of
Wales since the Industrial Revolution and its Coal industry which was at its
height in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
An overview is included of
the Welsh language before it becomes extinct, to give an in-depth view of the
language with, grammer and linguistic examples, also for those who desire to
learn a ‘new language’..
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