{"product_id":"shadowland-book-stephen-burrow-9781842174593","title":"Shadowland","description":"This is the story of life in Wales over a period of 1,500 years,  as gleaned from the remains its inhabitants left behind. These  people had no writing so they have left us no names and no  records of their deeds. Instead we have the possessions they  treasured in life, the broken remains of their bodies and the  marks they left on the landscape. The people of these 15  centuries have remained essentially anonymous, in the shadows of  prehistory. In part, these shadows have fallen by choice: from  3000 to 2200 BC, people built few monuments and buried very few  of the worldly goods which they must certainly have possessed  while, for the period 2200 until 1500 BC, monuments were built in  profusion and the dead were buried in great numbers. The lives  revealed seem filled with rituals that defy easy comprehension  and the motivations of those who lived them are difficult to  grasp. While thousands of burials are known and dozens of meeting  places and ceremonial centres have been uncovered, hardly any  settlements or houses are known. But the legacy of these people  can even be seen far beyond their own lands: they provided stones  for Stonehenge and began carving copper ore from the hills, in a  process that would eventually create the largest mine in  prehistoric Europe. In this beautifully illustrated book, Steve  Burrows coaxes these shadowy figues back into the light.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49571819028753,"sku":"GOR009824808","price":28.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1842174592.jpg?v=1750833446","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/shadowland-book-stephen-burrow-9781842174593","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}