Scotland Before the Scots

Scotland Before the Scots

V. Gordon Childe

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Editorial:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2023
Materia
Antropología social y cultural, etnografía
ISBN:
9781032070346
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Originally published in 1946, this book presents in what can arguably be described as an unusual way, a slice of Scottish social life by applying to prehistory the principles of Marxism as practised by Soviet scholars of Russian prehistory.

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