Among the leading Egyptologists of his day, Sir William Matthew
Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained
a generation of archaeologists. This short yet well-illustrated
work, first published in 1911, sketches humankind's achievements
over 10,000 years, establishing patterns in the rise and fall of
civilisations. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of ancient Egypt,
and looking also at Greece, Rome and beyond, Petrie defines each
civilisation as having a summer of growth and a winter of decline,
revealing his controversial eugenic view that while migration can
initially reinvigorate a society, the mixing of peoples over time
leads ultimately to that society's deterioration. Correlating
developments in the production of art and material culture in
different places, Petrie argues that civilisation is not a
continuous state, but intermittent and recurrent. Many of his other
publications - for both Egyptologists and non-specialists - are
also reissued in this series.
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