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Barry W. Cunliffe

Prehistoric Europe: An Illustrated History Revised Edition

by Barry Cunliffe (Editor)

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Ranging from the earliest settlements through the emergence of Minoan civilization to the barbarian world at the end of the Roman Empire, Prehistoric Europe provides a fascinating look at how successive cultures adapted to the landscape of Europe. In synthesizing the diverse findings of
archeology, Barry Cunliffe and a team of distinguished experts capture the sweeping movements of peoples, the spread of agriculture, the growth of metal working, and the rise and fall of cultures.
For centuries, we knew little of the European civilizations that preceded classical Greece or arose outside of the Roman Empire, beyond ancient myths and the writings of Roman observers. Now the most recent discoveries of archeology have been synthesized into one exciting volume. Featuring
hundreds of stunning photographs, this book provides the most complete account available of the prehistory of European civilization.

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0192880632
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978-0192880635
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Revised Edition
Publisher

Oxford University Press
Publication date

May 14, 1998
Language

English
Dimensions

7.4 x 1.3 x 9.6 inches
Print length

568 pages
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SeanFurl

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Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 1999

I expected the book to be somewhat uneven in quality since it has 11 authors and 13 chapters with each chapter written by one individual. But the chapters on the Neolithic era are particularly weak. These chapters divide Europe into the southeast region, the southwest, etc., at the same moment in time, without showing movements of people and cultures into different regions at somewhat later or earlier times. The regions are just arbitrary compass points; they don't reflect the significance of transportation along coasts and rivers, for instance. Within a region the presentation does little to distinguish the agricultural people near the coasts from less settled or highland people living further inland. The coverage of Iberia is flimsy at best, and too brief. The account of the bell-beaker people is totally confusing. I could go on. On the other hand, the chapters surrounding the era of the Romans are really great. (But I didn't buy a book entitled "Prehistory" to read about that era.) As far as the book's illustrations go, there are over 10,000 dolmens and other prehistoric megalithic monuments in Western Europe today, but the book has just a single photograph of one, and that particular one happens to be covered with earth, the photograph is taken from the air, and all you see is a mere mound of grass. Reviewing the illustrations as a whole, some of them are worthless, but the majority are well worthwhile pictures of weapons, drinking vessels, jewelry, statues, etc. A few of them are in color. There are also some maps. Maps can be a great help in presenting findings in a work like this, but the book doesn't utilize maps as much as it should (and again the Neolithic and Bronze ages are the weakest in this regard).

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