At each of these sites we hear from the people who found and recovered these ancient remains, and follow their efforts to understand them. c) The choice of what to explain and what not to explain - and how best to do that (see 2, above) - I feel like Mr. What is slowly coming into focus, through analysis of these ten sites and many others, is a completely different picture. Sadly, in America we know all too well that acknowledging your ancestors were immigrants does not mean you will be kinder to other immigrants. As the government’s national archive for England, Wales and the United Kingdom, The National Archives hold over 1,000 years of the nation’s records for everyone to discover and use.

And as so often in the history of archaeology, and as I will show in this talk, new ideas about Stonehenge and the landscape around are leading some of those changes. Now Helen Skelton and Alex Langlands join a new dig which is unearthing more clues to Henry's life and times.Landscapes of Predation: Exploring Hostile Social Environments in Small-Scale Societies presented by Dr.

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. These discoveries illuminate Britain's ever-shifting history that we now know includes an increasingly diverse array of cultures and customs. His compelling, sometimes teasing, archaeological odyssey illustrates the diversity, complexity and sheer strangeness of the lives that represent Britain’s past.Unfortunately we cannot offer a refund on custom prints unless they are faulty or we have made a mistake. Pitts is a great communicator and deals effectively with some complex excavations, technical information, and wider implications. 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. 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.

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. But then, starting with the third series, it looks like the producers decided they didn't want to make anything so staid as perhaps the best archaeology series on English-speaking television ever. Please don't forget that we also have an app, which can be especially useful if you're working outside and using a laptop is inconvenient.

His compelling, sometimes teasing, archaeological odyssey illustrates the diversity, complexity and sheer strangeness of the lives that represent Britain's past. An award-winning archaeologist and journalist chronicles England’s history―as told through the country’s recent archaeological discoveries. It was fascinating to me to find out about new arrangements and legislation, too: for example, there’s a Portable Antiquities Scheme nowadays which works with detectorists to understand and record their discoveries in a national database, which has had a huge impact on the amount of data held in England and Wales on small and large finds which would have otherwise been missed by the authorities. The digs were interesting, the conclusions neither sensationalized nor presented as fact with too little evidence. 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.

Some are major digs, conducted by large teams over years, and others are chance finds, leading to revelations out of proportion to the scale of the original project. Although it’s a compact paperback and the margins are quite small, it’s really well-produced and easy to read.Lucid and informative … conveys both the thrill of discovery and the painstaking, puzzling interpretation work that follows it. These discoveries illuminate Britain’s ever-shifting history that we now know includes an increasingly diverse array of cultures and customs. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.