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The Death of Prehistory (Hardcover)
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The Death of Prehistory (Hardcover)
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Since the eighteenth century, the concept of prehistory was
exported by colonialism to far parts of the globe and applied to
populations lacking written records. Prehistory in these settings
came to represent primitive people still living in a state without
civilization and its foremost index, literacy. Yet, many societies
outside the Western world had developed complex methods of history
making and documentation, including epic poetry and the use of
physical and mental mnemonic devices. Even so, the deeply engrained
concept of prehistory-deeply entrenched in European minds up to the
beginning of the twenty-first century-continues to deny history and
historical identify to peoples throughout the world. The fourteen
essays, by notable archaeologists of the Americas, Africa, Europe,
and Asia, provide authoritative examples of how the concept of
prehistory has diminished histories of other cultures outside the
West and how archaeologists can reclaim more inclusive histories
set within the idiom of deep histories-accepting ancient
pre-literate histories as an integral part of the flow of human
history.
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