Scenes from prehistoric life :
by Pryor, Francis
Edition statement:Paperback edition. Published by : Head of Zeus (London ) Physical details: xxix, 338 pages illustrations, maps ; 20 cm. ISBN:9781789544152; 1789544157.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 935.06 Col The Parthians | 936 Ste Prehistoric Europe: | 936.100222 Fow Images of prehistory | 936.101 Pry Scenes from prehistoric life : | 936.11 Cla The Picts | 936.4 Cun The Celtic World | 936.4 Her The Celts: |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In Scenes from Prehistoric Life, archaeologist Francis Pryor paints a vivid picture of British and Irish prehistory, from the Old Stone Age (about one million years ago) to the arrival of the Romans in AD 43, in a sequence of fifteen profiles of ancient landscapes. Whether writing about the early human family who trod the estuarine muds of Happisburgh in Norfolk c.900,000 BC, the craftsmen who built a wooden trackway in the Somerset Levels early in the fourth millennium BC, or the Iron Age denizens of Britain's first towns, Pryor uses excavations and surveys to uncover the daily routines of our ancient ancestors. By revealing how our prehistoric forebears coped with both simple practical problems and more existential challenges, Francis Pryor offers remarkable insights into the long and unrecorded centuries of our early history, and a convincing, well-attested and movingly human portrait of prehistoric life as it was really lived.
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