The Making of the British Landscape: How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today

ISBN-13: 9780141040592 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 832 str.

Francis Pryor

Opis

Telling the fascinating history of how we and our ancestors created the British landscape, Francis Pryor explains how to understand and interpret the clues that reveal the history of our land and of how people have lived on it through time.

Recenzje

Pryor is that rare combination of a first-rate working archaeologist and a good writer, with the priceless ability of being able to explain complex ideas clearly. This is popular archaeology at its best. Times Higher Educational Supplement

O autorze

Former president of the Council for British Archaeology, Dr Francis Pryor has spent thirty years studying the prehistory of the Fens. He has excavated sites as diverse as Bronze Age farms, field systems and entire Iron Age villages. He appears frequently on TV's Time Team and is the author of Seahenge, as well as Britain BC and Britain AD, both of which he adapted and presented as Channel 4 series.