Sublime

The people of the DDII culture looked different than people of earlier periods in two significant respects: the profusion of new decorations for the human body and the clear inequality in their distribution. The old fisher-gatherers of the Dnieper Rapids were buried wearing, at most, a few beads of deer or fish teeth. But in DDII cemeteries a few i

In the popular imagination, the Fens and other wetlands were seen as lawless places where thieves and outlaws ruled the roost and where the few small and isolated communities lived in constant fear of attack. Archaeology and local history, however, have shown that the reality was altogether different. There were some places where it was too wet to

River Out of Eden.

Prehistoric Britain is sometimes portrayed as a thickly wooded and very empty place, where people would have journeyed for days through dark forest paths linking far-flung settlements. I hope this book may already have dispelled some of these myths. For a start, the woodlands that covered the British Isles in post-Ice Age times were far from blanke

there is increasing evidence that in common with the chamber tombs of Neolithic times, more than a millennium previously, greater emphasis at many ceremonial sites was placed on rituals associated with the midwinter solstice (21 December).

We know from sites in the Somerset Levels and at Flag Fen and Must Farm in the Fens that the prehistoric inhabitants of Britain were very good at woodwork.c It would seem that these traditions of craftsmanship continued to develop through Roman times because they again became evident in the early post-Roman Saxon period. This was the time when timb

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evidence of early “internationalism”

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