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PIECING TOGETHER
THE PAST
OF
THEINTERPRETATION
DATA
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
by V. Gordon Childe
This is an excellentintroductionto
and an analysisof the purposes,
methodsand proceduresof modern
archaeology.It shouldproveto be
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and the inquiringlayman.
(An) objectiveanalysisof the real
aims (and limitations)of modern
archaeology. . . onecan.onlyhope
that it will be read by all who
controlthe conductof excavations
and the purchasesof specimens.It
revealsthe authornot onlyas a man
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thinker who has masteredthe fundamentalprinciplesof his subject.
ProfessorChildehas done (archaeology)a greatservice.
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Issued now under Americanauspices,
this is the same volume as that reviewed
in Archaeology 8 (1955) 215, where
it was said that "it will be a dull reader
who does not find the book interesting."

especiallyred; and vases of the second
half of the fourth century B.c. decorated exclusively with geometric and
vegetal motifs.

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A new edition of a well known his- publication, some of the more remarkable individualresults achievedare here
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Bronze Age has been rewritten to take which fell over this vast area will prove
account of recent discoveriesand the of interest not only to specialists in
Roman engineeringbut to wider circles.
deciphermentof Mycenaeanwriting.

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radio talks on the B.B.C., these essays providesthe basic material for the study
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