Digging up Britain : a new history in ten extraordinary discoveries
Pitts, Michael W.2021
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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.
Main title:
Author:
Pitts, Michael W., author
Imprint:
London : Thames & Hudson, 2021.
Collation:
288 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2019.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780500296127 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
930.10941930.109930.1094930.10941 PIT
Language:
English
BRN:
2527177
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