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The ‘idea of prehistory’ in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gina L. Barnes
Gina L. Barnes*
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St John's College, Cambridge CB2 1TP
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Thirty years after Glyn Daniel's perceptive publication on the ‘idea of prehistory’ (Daniel 1962), the topic is enjoying a return engagement in the archaeological literature. Not only have the sources of the words for ‘prehistory’ been traced in various languages (Chippindale 1988; Clermont & Smith 1990). but a new nuance has been added to the word ‘idea’. In the new chapters added to the re-issue of Daniel’s book, Renfrew uses the phrase ‘idea of prehistory’ to mean ‘a picture of the past’ or a ‘reconstruction of the past’ (Daniel & Renfrew 1988: 198, 203). In other words, Renfrew has subtly shifted the meaning of ‘idea’ from the concept of a time of human existence before the advent of written history, as I perceive Daniel originally used it, to an interpretation of what went on in that time period.

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Antiquity , Volume 64 , Issue 245 , December 1990 , pp. 929 - 940
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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