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

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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. And after giving me episodes that I'd easily rate an 8 or a 9, they give me talk shows and reality shows, neither of which I watch because I consider them to be zeroes. Although it’s a compact paperback and the margins are quite small, it’s really well-produced and easy to read.

She contributed in her own small way to saving the Staffordshire Hoard for the nation and blogs at www.Every chapter holds extraordinary tales of planning, teamwork, luck, and cutting-edge archaeological science that produces surprising insights into how people lived a thousand to a million years ago. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Lots of descriptions of what things look like, or how they are situated in relation to each other, etc. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. It is good to see that LSBUD goes from strength-to-strength in its coverage of almost 100 asset owners.

Presenters Helen Skelton and Alex Langlands explore some of the most fascinating periods of British history through current archaeological excavations around the country.Lucid and informative … conveys both the thrill of discovery and the painstaking, puzzling interpretation work that follows it. Journeying was instinctive, and inhumanities – aggression, war, despotism – arose when the virtue and dignity of travel were suppressed. Digging up Britain 2023, the UK’s safe digging industry report, is back for its sixth edition, documenting the latest trends, hot topics and data from all the groundwork taking place across the UK last year.

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.All this is changing what we know about Britain’s early history, and the way we think about ourselves. 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. AIA Vice President for Outreach and Education, Laura Rich, will host an engaging “fireside chat”-style conversation, taking questions from the audience, and learning alongside us about some of the most significant discoveries in Britain.

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. His compelling, sometimes teasing, archaeological odyssey illustrates the diversity, complexity and sheer strangeness of the lives that represent Britain’s past. His compelling, sometimes teasing, archaeological odyssey illustrates the diversity, complexity and sheer strangeness of the lives that represent Britain’s past. There has never been a time before when so much ancient material was found, nor so much learnt about our distant history.

Unfortunately we cannot offer a refund on custom prints unless they are faulty or we have made a mistake. Pitts pays tribute to the “meticulous and wise” Roger Jacobi here who put together scattered finds from a site that had been excavated and carved out for well over a hundred years. 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. The Geospatial Commission leadership would do well to read this report closely, and ensure its forthcoming work is additive to existing systems.