Digging up Britain: Ten discoveries, a million years of history

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It has all the accoutrements you’d expect of an academic / popular science book – black and white illustrations in the text plus colour plates, notes and places to see / books to read on all the sites he treats and a comprehensive index. Most books of this genre work from oldest to most recent, Mike Pitts gives us ten archeological digs from newest to oldest and does so in an easily read and entertaining manner. He is manifestly annoyed by the misinterpretation and oversimplification of the press in reporting new information. The Geospatial Commission leadership would do well to read this report closely, and ensure its forthcoming work is additive to existing systems. Unfortunately we cannot offer a refund on custom prints unless they are faulty or we have made a mistake.

Archaeology is a complex jigsaw puzzle, drawing together everything from skeletons to swords, temples to treasure. When I skipped to the fourth series to see if they later got their heads back on straight, I discovered that they did change course, but not to their original format. Dr Alice Roberts visits archaeological excavations around the UK, linking together the results of digs and investigations the length and breadth of the country to build up a picture of the year in British archaeology. Absolutely brilliant - some of my favourite sites are mentioned, with the latest developments - the London Mithraeum, Star Carr, Stonehenge, and others I was less familiar with.Read all Dr Alice Roberts visits archaeological excavations around the UK, linking together the results of digs and investigations the length and breadth of the country to build up a picture of the year in British archaeology. Although it’s a compact paperback and the margins are quite small, it’s really well-produced and easy to read. He works backwards in time, partly because, as he says, that is how archaeologists work, because that is how we come to understand what is found. This must-read and powerful document has been designed to help all those engaged in excavation work learn more about the risks and then reduce utility strikes. All of us go back to dark-skinned hunter-gatherers who have walked over a land bridge, and he asks us to remember that in a striking finale.

It's a past so increasingly strange as time is peeled back that there is no practical way to make the modern comparison. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. An excellent overview of some of the latest discoveries and theories in British archaeology, discusing sites including Must Farm, Black Loch, Starr Carr and Gough's Cave.In countries where there are hunter-gatherers today (often people pushed into marginal places where anyone else would find it hard to live at all), they can be treated as second-class citizens.