They’re back to almost a million years now – and while there is not much to go on with the very early stuff, stories can be told, carefully, from evidence, and that evidence can be woven together to provide compelling discoveries and changes in thought. This book highlights ten archaeological finds that change the way we think of British history and prehistory.

There were other bias as well that caused misinterpretation such as a military person identifying a site as having a military history and in reality it did not and the other is those only interested in the status sites and ignoring any evidence of the full value of how people in all walks interacted and lived out their lives. We move from rural Staffordshire and Norfolk to the centre of London, looking at layers of Roman history as we work back – and again, here, new planning legislation allows for the appropriate time for archaeologists to check what’s under new buildings, even if it was thought that we knew everything already. 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. A theme runs through the book that, even in the earliest periods, the UK was linked with Europe with lots of movement across the Channel and, earlier, across the land bridge of Doggerland, with aDNA showing what a varied population the UK has had over the millennia.I don't often give 5 stars - I save it for the most exceptional books I read, and this is one that I'll be coming back to and dipping into in the future. It's a past so increasingly strange as time is peeled back that there is no practical way to make the modern comparison. Pitts is a great communicator and deals effectively with some complex excavations, technical information, and wider implications. An award-winning archaeologist and journalist chronicles England’s history―as told through the country’s recent archaeological discoveries. 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.

Sure, there's a lab portion, but the videos looked so pointless and merely sensational that I couldn't bring myself to go any further. Although Robin is probably a mythical character, there are reasons why the King stirred widespread resentment among ordinary people. An ideal Christmas present for that young person in your family considering a course in archaeology.Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you.