The Revolutions of Civilisation (Cambridge Library CollectionEgyptology) By William Matthew Flinders Petrie
William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Among the leading Egyptologists of his day Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie 1853 1942 excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists This short yet well illustrated work first published in 1911 sketches humankind s achievements over 10000 years establishing patterns in the rise and fall of civilisations Drawing on his extensive knowledge of ancient Egypt and looking also at Greece Rome and beyond Petrie defines each civilisation as having a summer of growth and a winter of decline revealing his controversial eugenic view that while migration can initially reinvigorate a society the mixing of peoples over time leads ultimately to that society s deterioration Correlating developments in the production of art and material culture in different places Petrie argues that civilisation is not a continuous state but intermittent and recurrent Many of his other publications for both Egyptologists and non specialists are also reissued in this series The Revolutions of Civilisation Cambridge Library CollectionEgyptology Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS known as Flinders Petrie was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom and excavated at many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt such as Naukratis Tanis Abydos and Amarna Some consider his most famous discovery to be that of the Merneptah Stele Petrie developed the system of dating layers based on pottery and ceramic findings..
William Matthew Flinders Petrie