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

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At each of these sites we hear from the people who found and recovered these ancient remains, and follow their efforts to understand them. Pitts is able to take an admirable long view over most of these sites, showing how knowledge has increased and dates have gone back in time or been refined as often generation after generation of archaeologists have studied, pondered, hypothesised and published. However here, we’re not looking back 300 or so years to Empire, but many hundreds and then thousands of years to the waves of migration which created our country. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I don't often give 5 stars - I save it for the most exceptional books I read, and this is one that I'll be coming back to and dipping into in the future.

This must-read and powerful document has been designed to help all those engaged in excavation work learn more about the risks and then reduce utility strikes.Pitts is a great communicator and deals effectively with some complex excavations, technical information, and wider implications. They’re back to almost a million years now – and while there is not much to go on with the very early stuff, stories can be told, carefully, from evidence, and that evidence can be woven together to provide compelling discoveries and changes in thought.

As the author says, it's a past that's not a long parade of us in funny costumes—a fascinating 5-star read. But then, starting with the third series, it looks like the producers decided they didn't want to make anything so staid as perhaps the best archaeology series on English-speaking television ever. 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. It would have been interesting if the author had included Ireland and related the findings to the classic “Book of Invasions. An award-winning archaeologist and journalist chronicles England’s history―as told through the country’s recent archaeological discoveries.A hand forged nail was given as evidence of great "industrial production at the Bridgewater Canal" And when they got chance to visit a blacksmith did they make one of those hand forged nails, no, they made a pick. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. With 79 illustrations, 24 in colour An up-to-the-minute account of ten of the most exciting archaeological discoveries in Britain over the past decade. So, far from being a contemporary issue, the author sees Britain as a land of immigrants for hundreds of thousands of years.

Alex Langlands investigations the unique properties of the stones that make up the monument, while Helen Skelton visits the nearby village where its builders lived. These discoveries illuminate Britain's ever-shifting history that we now know includes an increasingly diverse array of cultures and customs. We'll share all of the questions and find *some* of the answers, as we join the teams in the field, Digging for Britain. Extremely rare 'ancient Celtic ornament' discovered in Norway believed to have been stolen by Vikings". Sadly, in America we know all too well that acknowledging your ancestors were immigrants does not mean you will be kinder to other immigrants.

And as so often in the history of archaeology, and as I will show in this talk, new ideas about Stonehenge and the landscape around are leading some of those changes.

Judging from the place in the credits might be Nick Gillam-Smith for this episode, mistitled as Series Producer only. Series 9 features historian Onyeka Nubia and archaeologists Cat Jarman and Stuart Prior in some episodes as presenters.

And if the scale of excavation in Britain is now unprecedented, there’s also been a scientific revolution: thanks to new developments in radiocarbon dating, ancient DNA studies, chemical analyses and much more, we are now learning things about past lives that were unimaginable when I began in archaeology. His compelling, sometimes teasing, archaeological odyssey illustrates the diversity, complexity and sheer strangeness of the lives that represent Britain's past. He is manifestly annoyed by the misinterpretation and oversimplification of the press in reporting new information. And the excitement carries us through any technical bits that might be daunting – he explains things very well and it’s extremely accessible, although you’d want to have some kind of interest in history and archaeology to get the best out of it. All of us go back to dark-skinned hunter-gatherers who have walked over a land bridge, and he asks us to remember that in a striking finale.