5/30/2023 0 Comments Ancestral Journeys by Jean Manco![]() ![]() ![]() These are covered with considerable skill in this compact study. While archaeological discoveries continue to be essential, some of the biggest breakthroughs have been in the fields of genetics and linguistics. Manco sets out to present the current state of research and offers a truly interdisciplinary survey, drawing on the latest in archaeology, linguistics, genetics and related disciplines. At its worst it has served to support the ideology of the ‘nation state’ as a culturally uniform geographic entity. ![]() Language barriers and nationalist ideology have interfered with the study of the peopling of Europe, and the emergence of nations, for centuries. ‘For the general public the new views may not fit treasured national myths.’ The interplay between research agendas and politics is always fraught, especially when the topic is identity. ‘It is a tangled web our ancestors have woven’, Jean Manco writes. Published in Issue 2 (March/April 2014), Reviews, Volume 22 The peopling of Europe from the first venturers to the Vikings ![]()
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