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Digging Up Britain A New History in Ten Extraordinary Discoveries (Paperback) /anglais Paperback – April 29, 2021

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ THAMES HUDSON (April 29, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 050029612X
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Mike Pitts is a writer and broadcaster, archaeologist (directing excavations at Stonehenge) and one-time museum curator. He has written for the Times, Telegraph, Sunday Times, Guardian, New Scientist, BBC History Magazine and other papers and magazines, and continues to conduct original archaeological research and publish in peer-reviewed journals. He is editor of the Council for British Archaeology's magazine, British Archaeology, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries

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Megan Robitaille
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic overview of current archaeological research
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2023
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A fantastic overview of current archaeological research in Great Britain.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Holistic Archaeology
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2021
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The best part of archaeology is that discoveries just keep on giving. Each of the ten sites Mike Pitts reimagines are well-known sites, discovered years ago. Volumes have been published on them. I've read my share. I've visited several of them as I could and one at least three times.

Pitts reframes the deep past with the latest tech and research to tell us of a past that's considerably more than we might have imagined. Society in these pasts can hardly be grasped. We see the case of a hundred generations of people and families that aren't us at all. They left no genetic record in the modern genome, curious deadends. It's a past so increasingly strange as time is peeled back that there is no practical way to make the modern comparison. Even the geography of Britain is unrecognizable.

As the author says, it's a past that's not a long parade of us in funny costumes—a fascinating 5-star read.
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G. Black
5.0 out of 5 stars A Lost Genome
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2023
On the last page, the author writes. "If anything makes us different, here in Britain, it is the place where we live, its climate, landscapes and resources, its views out on the world, its history, and its particular stories buried beneath our feet. Stonehenge, Star Carr, Gough's Cave, the flints at Barham, and the footprints at Happisburgh are places and things that matter to me as much as Roman London, the Staffordshire Hoard, or a medieval cathedral." I agree and even prefer the history before the Roman arrival better.

Britain's history is a continuum of arrivals. Chapter 9 describes a population that existed before the Neanderthals. The site is at Barhham, dating ~400,000 years ago. The hunter/gatherers lived in a landscape transitioning from wetland to marsh, grasslands, and forest, as evidenced by fossilized snails. Bones, teeth, flint flakes, and pollen reveal a much warmer, humid landscape lacking human remains. The chapter continues with the interglacial period, interrupted by as many as nine glacial advances. Each time, the human population reversed and headed south. Britain was the western extreme of the continent, with connecting landbridges being severed. The glacial retreat brought entirely new arrivals, repopulating the barren landscape. With the last interglacial period, the hunter/gatherer genome is lost for good with the arrival of farming migrants.

Chapter 9 also described the preserved footprints of 5 individuals walking through an estuary mudflat. Alas, slumping reviews the evidence and is subsequently lost to the daily tides, revealed and destroyed in a matter of several days. The strollers passed that way ~900,000 years before the present.

This is from one chapter. Nine more reveal equally tantalizing glimpses into the past. If you enjoy Francis Pryor's or Chris Stringer's writings, then Mike Pitts' books will be welcome additions to your shelf. Digging Up Britain begins with the slaughter or execution and burial of ~50 male Vikings (1000 AD). Not bad for a volume that reviews a million years of British history.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2020
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Very interesting book
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Susan Jane Rudich
3.0 out of 5 stars jumps around eras and countries
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2024
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he took half the book to convince us that ancient countries had heavy trade among themselves. Then he gets down to facts
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R. Bethune
5.0 out of 5 stars A Fascinating Look at British Prehistory
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2023
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Most books of this genre work from oldest to most recent, Mike Pitts gives us ten archeological digs from newest to oldest and does so in an easily read and entertaining manner. Highly recommended for anyone with an interest in archeology or British natural history.
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PreRomanite
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Publication.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 24, 2023
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A specific request as a gift for a dear friend, sadly now deceased (not caused by the book!).
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent opportunity for a physical peek into England’s history!
Reviewed in Canada on January 25, 2020
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Well written. Interesting and varied sections of history discussed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in Australia on November 27, 2019
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Greg
5.0 out of 5 stars Up to date archaeology—as science and cultural practice.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 26, 2019
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As editor of British Archaeology magazine and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries Mike Pitts knows about what he writes.
Pitts is also an award-winning author, always informative and with a lucid entertaining style.
Digging Up Britain consists of a series of ten archaeological case studies from sites shedding light on the earliest (known) occupation of these islands to the times of the Anglo-Saxon and Viking.
Each chapter discusses the nature of the archaeology, character of the archaeologists, the science and some social/cultural implications of the research.
While this accessible book will reward readers of all ages and experience it should be on the reading lists of student archaeologists and historians everywhere.
An ideal Christmas present for that young person in your family considering a course in archaeology.
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Mr. D. R. Goodman
4.0 out of 5 stars Better for archaeology students
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 11, 2021
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This is undoubtedly a very good book. It's just that I lack the knowledge to appreciate it fully. It deals with some very interesting subjects of archaeology, but I found it didn't grip, mainly because I didn't understand enough about the subject.
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