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REVIEWS
How can scholars approach the ambiguous moments that slip between fingertips? How do we capture what is not said in a text? How do we engage with the silence of a Neolithic carved- stone ball? These challenging questions form the heart of Jay Johnston’s wonderfully wide ranging book. From rethinking Pictish carvings, via attempts to decode Viking runes in the 19th century, to rereading Iron-Age brochs, each chapter juxtaposes different contexts, connections and comparisons.
…this book is an engaging, challenging and important read; it asks the reader to refuse to accept the immediate, the superficial and the familiar; it recognises that new ways of thinking are demanding an end to ‘business as usual’; and it convinces us of what might be possible, even if there are greater theoretical depths still to be mined.
Medieval Archaeology, 65/2, 2021
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