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1、PraiseforCreatingPrehistoryWritteninasparkling,compellingandveryaccessiblestyle,withasuperbsenseofpace,drama,funandirony,CreatingPrehistoryisawonderfullycourageousand?uentquestioningofthenatureofarchaeology,basedonatremendousamountoforiginalresearch.Ron
2、aldHutton,BristolUniversityInCreatingPrehistoryAdamStoutoffersacompellingaccountofthevisions,philosophies,rivalriesandeccentricitiesshapingtheBritisharchaeologicallandscape.DavidMatless,UniversityofNottinghamAdamStoutsbookisathrillingandinnovativecontri
3、butiontothehistoryofarchaeology.Stoutmakestheunprecedentedmoveofplacingtheprehistoricarchaeologyoftheinter-waryearsalongsidedruids,ley-huntersandhyper-diffusionists,investigatingthesocial,politicalandhistoricalconditionsthataffectedeach.Theresultsarebot
4、hsurprisingandenlightening.JulianThomas,UniversityofManchesterCreatingPrehistoryisanengaginglyprovocativecontributiontocurrentdebatesonhowthepastisproduced,inwritingandillustrationandonthegroundinexcavationandpreservation.Itrecoverstheknowledgeandimagin
5、ationoflay,oftenlocal,enthusiastsinpre-warBritainfromthecondescensionofanewarchaeologicalestablishmentkeentoencloseandpolicetheboundariesofprehistoricexpertise.Thoroughlyresearched,frommanypreviouslyuntappedsources,andaccessiblyandentertaininglywritten,
6、CreatingPrehistorywillappealtoawidereadership,interestedinsitesofantiquityandhowthoseplaceshavebeenviewedanddebatedintherecentpast.StephenDaniels,UniversityofNottinghamPrehistoryisacontentiousaffair,andAdamStoutsstoryofjusthowcompetitivenarrativescanget
7、isilluminatinginitsexposureofarchaeologysdirtywaragainstvisionaries.JohnBillingsley,Editor,NorthernEarthAdamStoutsnewbookgivestheinsidestoryofBritisharchaeologyinthe?rsthalfofthetwentiethcentury.Hebringstolightthevariousgroupsandindividuals,especiallyth
8、erevivedOrderofDruids,whoopposedthelow-level,reductionistviewofStonehengeandprehistoricculturethattheauthoritieswereinsistingupon.Thisisanewandwell-toldstoryaboutacontroversythatisstillgoingon.JohnMichell,authorofTheViewOverAtlan
