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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Adam Stout |
| ISBN: | 9781405155045 1405155043 9781405155052 1405155051 |
| OCLC Number: | 175054742 |
| Description: | viii, 318 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Manufacturing the past : the Victorian background -- Establishing the discipline -- Containing the amateurs -- Making progress -- The politics of socialism -- The diffusion heresy : nurture and the primitive -- Establishing diffusion -- A clash of narratives : diffusion and the archaeologists -- The esoteric revival -- The universal bond -- Stonehenge : a mecca of Celtic idealism -- The aesthetics of order -- The old straight track -- The straight track postal club -- Straight track to beyond -- Visions of civilization. |
| Responsibility: | Adam Stout. |
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"A lively and thoroughly engaging read which grabs the reader's attention from the start ... .Stout's excellent work is, of course, more than just a set of entertaining anecdotes; it is informative, illuminating and important ... .An essential read." (The Prehistoric Society, March 2009) "Creating Prehistory is radical and passionate, welcome things in a world of academic research that is itself increasingly professionalised ... The story that Stout tells so well is far from irrelevant for archaeology. Not only does it shed light on the exclusions of the discipline and how they have come to exist, it also shows in compellingly human detail that the study of prehistory is never only, never really about the distant past at all." (British Archaeology, January February 2009) "An excellent new book ... .[Stout] reminds us how much the pioneer lay hunters were also strongly involved in the growing outdoor movement of the pre-war years." (Cambrian News, January 2009) "A fascinating account of archaeology in the first half of the 20th Century." Western Daily Press"It is a complex story and Stout tells it well ... He is good at linking apparently disparate phenomena." (Morning Star) Read more...
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- Anthropology -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
- Archaeology -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
- Prehistoric peoples -- Great Britain.
- Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Great Britain.
- Great Britain -- Antiquities.
- Archäologie.
- Vor- und Frühgeschichte.
- Großbritannien.
