Charlie wrote: > V. Gordon Childe's What Happened in History remains an excellent > materialist review. Further discoveries, while refining and correcting > details, have confirmed that approach overall.
it's interesting that Jared Diamond, in his _Guns, Germs, & Steel_, cites Childe's work favorably. BTW, I think it's more likely that the Iron Age caused the Axial Age than vice-versa. Shaking up society is more likely to cause changes in religion. -- Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, at the very least you should know the nature of that evil. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
