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tiompan
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Re: Neolithic Settlement
Jun 01, 2013, 17:10
nigelswift wrote:
tiompan wrote:

I've never bought the peaceful Neolithic stuff , it seems to have been politically inspired rather than evidence based , marxist : (Childe ) egalitarian society , everybody poor and happy with no place for the greedy and feminist : (Gimbutas )goddess worship until warrior blokes took over .


Plus Rousseau - "nothing is so gentle as man in his primitive state" and neo-paganism, which tends to have a bit of a blind spot about what went on.


yep , I never even considered Rousseau or neo pagans /new agers rose tinted views of the "Golden Age "as having anything to offer interpretative archaeology .
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