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Article: Europe Between the Oceans: Themes and Variations: 9000 BC - AD 1000. Barry Cunliffe.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2008
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Europe Between the Oceans: Themes and Variations: 9000 BC - AD WOO. Barry Cunliffe. Yale University Pess. [pounds sterling]30.00. ix - 518 pages. ISBN 978-0-300-11923-7. As Sir Barry points out in his introduction, the blossoming of European civilisation and her domination of world history from ca. AD 1000 to the present is well known. Far less understood is the period before that, from "its recolonization following the Last Glacial Maximum around 10,000 BC to AD 1000 and it is this period which he describes here. Using his long experience as an archaeologist, teacher and writer he ...