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Consider "Britain BC" and "Britain AD" by Francis Pryor for a start. One thing that the recent (since I was in university in the '60s) archaeology has taught us
by acmdas 6y ago
Consider "Britain BC" and "Britain AD" by Francis Pryor for a start. One thing that the recent (since I was in university in the '60s) archaeology has taught us (yet again) is that no one writes history without having an angle (no pun) and the angle is often political with the result that history is very often quite misleading if not outright wrong. The notion throughout European history and archaeology that changes in physical culture (tools, pots, etc.) and even language necessarily mean wholesale changes in populations is being seriously called into question by recent archaeology and DNA studies.
- gerdesj 6y agoI think there do seem to be apolitical writers. Of course writers and archaeologists have an angle, that's why you write a book! Modern writers (ie not Geoff of Monmouth, Sir W Scott, int al) generally spend quite a while putting out their stall with quite a lot of reasoning, rather than "just so" style commentary. If they don't then I bin the book.