Scotland Before the Scots: Being the Rhind Lectures for 1944

by V Gordon Childe

Book Overview

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. Using archaeological evidence, the author distinguishes 6 stages - from the earliest definable groups of immigrants to the Iron Age. There are 10 appendices, devoted to the typology and classification of tombs,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 103207034X
• ISBN13: 9781032070346
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"