Britain B.C. : life in Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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xxix, 488 pages : illustrations (some color), maps - Publisher London : Harper Perennial, 2004.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: [London] : HarperCollins, 2003. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-475) and index. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 23.95 |
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Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans
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Summary
Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans
An authoritative and radical rethinking of the whole of British history before the coming of the Romans, based on remarkable new archaeological finds. So many extraordinary archaeological discoveries (many of them involving the author) have been made in the last thirty years that our whole understanding of British prehistory needs to be updated. So far only the specialists have twigged on to these developments; now, for the first time, Francis Pryor broadcasts them to a much wider, general audience. Aided by aerial photography, coastal erosion (which has helped expose such coastal sites as Seahenge) and new planning legislation that requires developers to excavate the land they build on, archaeologists have unearthed a far more sophisticated life among the Ancient Britons than has been previously supposed. Far from being the barbarians of Roman propaganda, we Brits had our own religion, laws, crafts, arts, trade, farms, priesthood and royalty, the stories of which Francis Pryor tells with passion, wit and intelligence.