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Re: Gordon Childe
Feb 11, 2017, 22:31
spencer wrote:
I think he was a good bloke, glad you're now aware of him : ) He understood that history is a flow, and the importance of comparing timelines of various cultures. Holistic. Now read on, dot, dot, dot... (if you don't want to get bogged down in barbarianism, that is)


He was sadly hampered in that respect by being too early for the revolutions in dating that came later in the 20th century and are still going on now. His timelines were fatally flawed by what he couldn't have known.

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