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Title: A classic
Review: A solid scholarly work, now updated by Peter Heather. Nomadic peoples are often a difficult subject, lacking the same amount of archaeological and written evidence that urban civilizations have but Thompson does a good job of sifting through the evidence. Some modern authors, as well as some older ones, use this lack of evidence as encouragement to pursue wild speculation--but Thompson stick closely to what little evidence there is at hand.
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