Digging Up Britain: Ten Discoveries, a Million Years of History

Digging Up BritainBritain, a historically crowded place, has been the site of an unprecedented number of discoveries almost everywhere the ground is broken, archaeologists find evidence that people have been there before. These discoveries illuminate Britain s 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.