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Loading... Digging Up Britain: Ten Discoveries, a Million Years of Historyby Mike Pitts
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Excellent, well written and insightful overview of some of the most important recent archeological excavations across Britain. A great way to find out key information about the current state of knowledge across millennia of history and prehistory. Great guidance on further reading. Highly recommended. ( )
This is an evocative and fascinating excavation of Britain’s archaeological past
Britain has long been obsessed with its own history and identity, as an island nation besieged by invaders from beyond the seas: the Romans, Vikings and Normans. The long saga of prehistory is often forgotten. But our understanding of our past is changing. In the last decade, astounding archaeological discoveries have shed new light on those who have gone before us, radically altering the way we think about our history. This book presents ten of the most exciting - and surprising - of these discoveries. Mike Pitts leads us on a journey through time from the more recent and familiar to the most remote and bizarre, just as archaeologists delving into the earth find themselves moving backwards through the years until they reach the very oldest remnants of the past. At each of these sites we hear from the people who found and recovered these ancient remains, and follow their efforts to understand them. Some are major digs, carried out to record sites before they are covered over by new developments. Others are chance finds, leading to revelations out of proportion to the scale of the original projects. All are extraordinary tales of luck and cutting-edge archaeological science that have produced profound, and often unexpected, insights into people's lives on these islands between a thousand and a million years ago. No library descriptions found. |
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