TY  - BOOK
AU  - Armstrong,Karen
TI  - A short history of myth
SN  - 178211890X (pbk.) :
AV  - BL312 .A767 2018
U1  - 398.209 Ar57s 2018 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Canongate
KW  - Myth
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-165); What is a myth? -- The Palaeolithic Period : The Mythology of the hunters (c. 20000 to 8000 BCE) -- The Neolithic Period : The Mythology of the farmers (c. 8000 to 4000 BCD) -- The Early civilisations (c. 4000 to 800 BCE) -- The Axial Age (c. 800 to 200 BCE) -- The Post-Axial Period (c. 200 BCE to c. 1500 CE) -- The Great Western Transformation (c. 1500 to 2000)
N2  - "As long as we have been human, we have been mythmakers. Here, Armstrong holds up the mirror of mythology to show us the history of ourselves, and embarks on a journey that begins at a Neanderthal graveside and ends buried in the heart of the modern novel.--
ER  -