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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Worth reading again and again,
By "petersonreviews" (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tomb of the Eagles: Death and Life in a Stone Age Tribe (Paperback)
The distant human past is visible in the Orkneys, the low green islands in the sea north of Scotland. People who lived there five thousand years ago built fine stone tombs and henges older than the Pyramids.They watched the sky and kept calendars. And they used the right triangle of Pythagoras two thousand years before Pythagoras was born. It used to be thought that culture slowly radiated north from the Mediterranean to ignorant savages in northern Europe. But the people of the Orkneys turned our ideas about cultural diffusion upside down. Tomb of the Eagles is their enthralling story.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A Mighty Work,
By Joseph Fatula (San Jose, California United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tomb of the Eagles: Death and Life in a Stone Age Tribe (Paperback)
It's obvious - John Hedges knows his topic. In this book, he brings together an enormous amount of information on Neolithic Orkney and gives it summary and scholarly analysis. If you're looking for a book on life during the Neolithic, this is a definite! Worth every penny.
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Tomb of the Eagles: Death and Life in a Stone Age Tribe by John W. Hedges (Paperback - April 21, 1998)
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