Swastika the Earliest Known Symbol and Its Migrations

by Thomas Wilson

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Genres: History

Paperback

First published April 1, 1999

About the author

American historian and archeologist.

He was the curator of the division of prehistoric archeology in the national museum of Washington.

Reviews

[Riju Ganguly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book, despite being written by an anthropologist, turned out to be a typical guide book expected from a good Museum. It contains information and sketches in the most dry format conceivable. Diagrams and theories propounded by various persons have been hammered down with frightening conviction, instead of gentle comparison of myths and trying to find out their connections.
This particular edition, despite being cheap, is no joy either in terms of lay-out or font.
Contains lots of stuff but offers zero fun~ that's my assessment.

[Aleksandar Jovcic · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good and thoroughly written book. The writing is generally quite dry and the opinions of the author are quite progressive (evolutionary) even for his time so they stain his interpretations of the facts. The book also seems to repeat itself quite often as the final conclusion is told in the introduction and then he goes through all of the different opposing views just to repeat what he said in the introduction at the end. Which makes it a bit of a boring read. But nevertheless there’s a lot to learn in the book and the pictures are very helpful.

[Will · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an interesting read. Considering the topic and the number of symbol variants described, it is unfortunate that I chose the free edition that did not include pictures. That's on me. Still, an interesting study of the swastika as discovered in numerous locations across the globe and insightful discussion of the migration of symbols prior to written history.