http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/Issue_02/Gregory.htm
The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham released the second issue of the online journal "Rosetta" which covers a wide scope of archaeology, history and classics subjects. The journal is free to view and Issue #02 is online now and contains, at the above address, a review by Stephen Gregory of David Wengrow's The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North-East Africa, c.10,000 to 2,650 BC. Here's an extract:
The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham released the second issue of the online journal "Rosetta" which covers a wide scope of archaeology, history and classics subjects. The journal is free to view and Issue #02 is online now and contains, at the above address, a review by Stephen Gregory of David Wengrow's The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North-East Africa, c.10,000 to 2,650 BC. Here's an extract:
Perhaps the true value of this book is that it removes the modern myth that the political unification of ‘the Two Lands’ marked the birth of ‘eternal Egypt’; it rather describes the gradual emergence of a state which remained constantly in formation. While much of the evidence discussed is well known, Wengrow offers a substantially different interpretation and, by considering the psychological and philosophical aspects which underlie processes of social and political change, convincingly infers abstract concepts from the tangible remains so as to offer a wider perspective on the period of transition from Neolithic to Dynastic Periods.
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