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WHAT HAPPENED IN HISTORY. By Professor Gordon Childe. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England [300 Fourth Avenue, New York] 1942. pp. 256. 9d.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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Antiquity , Volume 17 , Issue 66 , June 1943 , pp. 101 - 103
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1 Summarized and reviewed in Antiquity 1936, x, 391–404 Google Scholar.

2 For instance, the Sutton 1400 ship-burial (Antiquity, March 1940), tells us at least as much about the arts and crafts of the period, and the technical skill of the artists and craftsmen, as about King Redwald (if it was he). Which is the more valuable ‘document’—the grave or the brief account in the O.E. Chronicle?

3 An extreme example of such detachment is given in the last sentence of the preface.