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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Plates bright and vivid. Some tanning and marking due to age. Year 1976. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The underlying criterion for the selection of artifacts has been typological rather than stylistic. Typology stresses types or “models” of a class of artifacts; stylistic analysis is based on formal and aesthetic features that are necessarily coloured by taste. Italian prehistoric studies were begun in the nineteenth century by Luigi Pigorini the founder of the Museum who was among the first to treat prehistory from a scientific point of view. Paleolithic archaeology was in the vanguard of these studies. Ornella Acanfora’s chapter “From the Paleolithic to the Chalcolithic like all studies on the subject shows that heritage and some of its problems. Renato Peroni’s chapters on the Bronze and Iron Ages provide important comparitive evidence of prehistoric finds in Italy an area that is much better known for its classical and historical archaeological material. Peroni in an article appearing in Dialoghi di Archeologia (Vol. 1 1967) has drawn attention to the contradiction between typo- logy and stylistic analysis which has sometimes had the effect of placing entire civilizations beyond the realm of the historical sciences.” As he cogently argues stylistic analysis is subsumed in typology and thus the latter is the more complete and scientific method. Perhaps because of a lack of information there has always been a tendency to regard Africa as marginal and noninnovative in its prehis- storic development a passive receiver of agriculture stock herding. (OS)