Headhunting, Migration, and Ancient DNA in Iron Age Europe: Interview with Professor Ian Armit
Tides of History
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The Complexity of Prehistory
The way to understand prehistory is that you're trying to create some sort of large coherent picture out of an almost infinite number of small internally contradictory pictures. That's true in the present day too, right? There are going to be aspects of their life that fit very neatly with those larger trends. And if that'strue in the present today, why wouldn't that be true in the past as well? No, that's absolutely right. We see societies which are relatively hierarchical, that collapse into relatively flat societies and then become hierarchical again. So it's a great deal of chronological change and not necessarily unidirectional change. The more that we know about society, the more variation we
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