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Neolithic Europe is a wide-ranging, thematic survey of the archaeological evidence for the period 8000-2000 BC. The last hunting and food collecting societies of Europe are discussed, but the book's main coverage is the Neolithic period, when agriculture was adopted as the dominant force in European society. Dr Whittle's treatment is systematic: covering Greece and the Balkans, the central and western Mediterranean, central and western Europe. Each...
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"An Archaeology of Images presents a new interpretation of the ways images worked within ancient European societies, in the period from 600 BC to AD 400." "Using archaeology and social anthropology, the author investigates the various meanings with which images may have been imbued, and seeks to undermine the usual interpretation of statues, reliefs and figurines as passive things to be looked at or worshipped. It is clear that the deposition of images...
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"The Living Goddesses crowns a lifetime of innovative, influential work by one of the twentieth century's most remarkable scholars. Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity her original - and originally shocking - interpretation of prehistoric European civilization. Gimbutas flew in the face of contemporary archaeology when she reconstructed through her tireless research in the field and in local texts and mythologies goddess-centered cultures...
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When a melting Swiss glacier recently revealed the body of a hunter millenia old, the world sat up and took notice. Here, in his well-preserved arrows, tools, and leather garments (not to mention his own remains) was a rare glimpse of life in prehistoric Europe, and it captured the public imagination. Elsewhere more obvious remnants of the pre-classical past have long been objects of fascination: the megaliths of northwestern Europe, the palaces of...
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