“the Ancient Celts”
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...Cunliffe’s The Ancient Celts provides a new analysis of the people if barbarian Europe. The theme of this book is an exhaustive exploration of these peoples and their lifeways, an exploration conducted both through a detailed look at the archaeology of the people and the time and of the various descriptions provided by ancient Greek and Roman writers. The Ancient Celts falls into the large genre of world history but it stands distinct in the detail that is provided and the specifics of where those details were acquired. Cunliffe’s intended audience encompasses academic and lay readers alike. His thesis is simply that the Celts were a much more complex culture than can be described by an analysis of either archaeology or classic writings alone.
Cunliffe recognized that neither archaeology nor textual accounts alone were sufficient to describe the ancient Celts as best as they could be described. Those that wrote about these people during their time only...
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