The Ancient Celts

Description: Amazon.com Review Each generation, the British scholar Jacquetta Hawkes has observed, chooses the archaeology that best suits its current ideology. For a century beginning in the late 1800s, archaeologists depicted the Celts as an inordinately brave and poetic tribal people who battled their way across the Eurasian world without being unduly aggressive--in the manner, that is, of good colonialists. Today some archaeologists are more inclined to consider the Celts as a people who kept ethnic unity alive across a huge span of territory and time, a view that may offer comfort in a time when, as Oxford University professor Barry Cun ... (more)

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
Release date: 25 September 1997
ISBN-10 : 0198150105 | ISBN-13: 9780198150107

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