This is an account of the excavations at Durrington Walls, Wiltshire, in southern England, undertaken in 1966 to 1968. Included are descriptions of human remains and artefacts such as pottery, coins, weaponry and metalwork, together with an account of the methodology used to une…
This is an account of the excavations at Durrington Walls, Wiltshire, in southern England, undertaken in 1966 to 1968. Included are descriptions of human remains and artefacts such as pottery, coins, weaponry and metalwork, together with an account of the methodology used to une…
This is an account of the excavations at Durrington Walls, Wiltshire, in southern England, undertaken in 1966 to 1968. Included are descriptions of human remains and artefacts such as pottery, coins, weaponry and metalwork, together with an account of the methodology used to une…
Explores the different and complex ways that those who exercised authority in the region confronted the contradiction inherent in political authority. Rulers must reinforce social inequality and bolster their own unique position yet simultaneously emphasize social similarities a…
"Political authority contains an inherent contradiction. Rulers must reinforce social inequality and bolster their own unique position at the top of the sociopolitical hierarchy, yet simultaneously emphasize social similarities and the commonalities shared by all. Political Stra…
The Central Sahara is considered the greatest "museum" of rock art in the world, containing several thousand prehistoric and recent images. The oldest paintings, called Round Heads, originated during a humid phase in the 10th millennium before present and they were created by da…
How did small-scale societies in the past experience and respond to sea-level rise? What happened when their dwellings, hunting grounds and ancestral lands were lost under an advancing tide? This book asks these questions in relation to the hunter-gatherer inhabitants of a lost …
Come face to face with our ancestors Travel back 8 million years with Evolution The Human Story and go on a fascinating journey to discover how our species has developed from tree-dwelling primates to modern humans.
How did we develop from simple animals inhabiting small pockets of forest in Africa to the dominant species on Earth, capable of sending spaceships to the Moon? Traveling back almost eight million years to our earliest primate relatives, Evolution: The Human Story charts the dev…
