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All this is changing what we know about Britain’s early history, and the way we think about ourselves. It's a past so increasingly strange as time is peeled back that there is no practical way to make the modern comparison.
In each chapter, the careful and methodical recording and preservation of structures and finds is highlighted, with any new technologies that arise in the telling well-explained, and the various experts who are brought in – whether that’s people who know about pollens or people who know about human bones – are celebrated and given their space and story.
While most of the gas network is underground and out of sight, it plays a central role in the daily lives of people across Wales and south west England.
We’re soon in the Bronze Age, finding that every house has its set of bronze household implements, then there’s fascinating DNA evidence of population changes during the Neolithic, with Stonehenge being built by “immigrants” and being a place of spiritual importance for hundreds and hundreds of years. What is slowly coming into focus, through analysis of these ten sites and many others, is a completely different picture. 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.Mike Pitts reviews ten significant archaeological sites in Britain, considering the latest (as of 2019) analyses of the artifacts and remains found. And so every year, hundreds of archaeologists across Britain go looking for more clues: who lived here, when and how? At the end of the book, Pitts points out these are only some of the stories that could be told, and reminds us that there’s been a succession of worlds here, each with technologies and characteristics and cultures, just as important as the Victorian era or the Middle Ages, and that the prehistoric footprints at Happisburgh and the deer-hunters’ platforms at Star Carr are equally as important as a medieval cathedral or Roman London. 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.