Digging Up Britain: A New History in Ten Extraordinary Discoveries - Couverture souple

Pitts, Mike

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 050029612X ISBN 13 : 9780500296127

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mike Pitts is an archaeologist and award-winning journalist. He has been the editor of Britain’s leading archaeological magazine, British Archaeology, for over a decade, and has written several books, including Digging for Richard III, also published by Thames & Hudson.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 050029612X
• ISBN 13: 9780500296127
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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