Scenes from Prehistoric Life av Francis Pryor

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An invigorating journey through Britain''s prehistoric landscape, and an insight into the lives of its inhabitants. ''Highly compelling'' <b><i>Spectator</i>, Books of the Year</b> ''An evocative foray into the prehistoric past'' <b><i>BBC Countryfile Magazine</i></b> ''Vividly relating what life was like in pre-Roman Britain'' <b><i>Choice Magazine</i></b> ''Makes life in Britain BC often sound rather more appealing than the frenetic and anxious 21st century!'' <b><i>Daily Mail</i></b>In <i>Scenes from Prehistoric Life</i>, the distinguished 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 th