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Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans Francis Pryor

Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans By Francis Pryor

Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans by Francis Pryor


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Summary

Based on new archaeological finds, this book introduces a novel rethinking of British history before the coming of the Romans. Aided by aerial photography, coastal erosion and new planning laws, archaeologists have found a more complex life among the Ancient Britons than previously thought.

Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans Summary

Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans by Francis Pryor

Based on new archaeological finds, this book introduces a novel rethinking of the whole of British history before the coming of the Romans. So many extraordinary archaeological discoveries (many of them involving the author) have been made since the early 1970s that our whole understanding of British prehistory needs to be updated. So far only the specialists have twigged on to these developments; now, Francis Pryor broadcasts them to a much wider, general audience. Aided by aerial photography, coastal erosion (which has helped expose such coastal sites as Seahenge) and new planning legislation which requires developers to excavate the land they build on, archaeologists have unearthed a far more sophisticated life among the Ancient Britons than has been previously supposed. Far from being the woaded barbarians of Roman propaganda, we Brits had our own religion, laws, crafts, arts, trade, farms, priesthood and royalty. And the Scots, English and Welsh were fundamentally one and the same people.

About Francis Pryor

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. From 1980 he turned his attention to pre-Roman religion and has excavated barrows, 'henges', and a large ceremonial centre dating to 3800 bc. In 1982, while working in a drainage dyke at Flag Fen, on the outskirts of Peterborough, he discovered the waterlogged timbers of a Bronze Age religious site. In 1987, with his wife Maisie Taylor, he set up the Fenland Archaeological Trust, which opened Flag Fen to the public.

Additional information

GOR001744182
9780007126927
0007126921
Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans by Francis Pryor
Used - Very Good
Hardback
HarperCollins Publishers
2003-09-01
512
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