num_pages: 288
description: An award-winning archaeologist and journalist chronicles Englands historyas told through the countrys recent archaeological discoveries. Digging Up Britain traces the history of Britain through key discoveries and excavations. With British archaeologist Mike Pitts as a guide this book covers the most exciting excavations of the past ten years gathers firsthand stories from the people who dug up the remains and follows the latest revelations as one twist leads to another. Britain a historically crowded place has been the site of an unprecedented number of discoveriesalmost everywhere the ground is broken archaeologists find evidence that people have been there before. These discoveries illuminate Britains ever-shifting history that we now know includes an increasingly diverse array of cultures and customs. Each chapter of the book tells the story of a single excavation or discovery. 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. 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. 20 color and 50 black- and-white illustrations
language: English
title: Digging Up Britain: Ten Discoveries, a Million Years of History
publisher: Thames & Hudson