50 Years Ago

摘要

The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of France. By Glyn Daniel - To win appreciation for some phase of antiquity on the strength of modern excavations is far easier than what has been undertaken here - where the antiquities concerned have been known for centuries, until only yesterday often excavated badly, and celebrated in a literature in which perverse and obsolete terminologies have run riot. Dr. Daniel, supported by his wife, and with backing from many quarters as well as friendly French co-operation, has for long been working towards a systematic account of the megalithic and related stone tombs of France, their form and contents, and their placing in the frame of European prehistory in the third and second millennia B.C., to which in general they belong. This book, by no means his first study of megalithic structures, is his best so far. It is not too hard to read.