An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through important archaeological discoveries, Professor Alice Roberts helps us better understand life today. ?This is a terrific, timely and transporting book - taking us heart, body and mind beyond history, to the fascinating truth of the prehistoric past and the present?Bettany Hughes We often think of Britain...

Written in an entertaining fashion this volume combines an overview of how archaeology is carried out with a history of the subject. It features the story of a fantasy dig in a reader's back garden, and also explores areas like tree-dating, DNA testing, environmental technology and geophysics.

In his ambitious book, Neil Oliver takes us on a whistlestop tour around the world and through a million years to give us a unique and invaluable grasp of how human history pieces together. From the east to the west, north to south, these 100 moments act like stepping stones allowing us to make sense of how these pivotal events have shaped the world we know today. Including many moments readers will expect, there are also surprises, and with them,...

Covering the whole of the post-medieval period, from 1550 to the present day, Francis Pryor provides a study of modern historical archaeology. He looks at topics as diverse as the birth of modern agriculture, the growth of towns and cities, and the development of roads, canals and railways.

This volume looks at dinosaur discoveries, from the earliest scrappy finds and best guesses of the early 1800s to the spectacular key discoveries that changed people's minds and brought dinosaurs alive in the public consciousness.

In the 20 million years between the evolution of the earliest apes and the appearance of Homo Sapiens, dozens of species of early ape and human lived and died, leaving behind a fossil record that has helped to create the detailed picture of human evolution revealed in this book.

Alan Cadbury is a professional archaeologist, a man who likes to unravel the mysteries and meaning of the past. Alan is obsessive - he won't let problems lie, even when he's slupmed drunk in his bedsit. But there's another side to him: giving an archaeology course in the 90s he met Richard Lane, now a senior detective. DCI Lane helps him tackle new cases - and this is his first big one, an honour killing perpetrated eight years ago. Oh yes, archaeology...

Reassessing Britain in the Middle Ages, Pryor contends that this was when Britain moved from Late Antiquity into a recognisable world of fixed roads and parishes, and familiar institutions, such as the church and local government.

Explores what life was like during the time of the ancient Greek civilisation.

Martin Carver draws on the full range of research undertaken at the site, which was still being excavated in 1993, to present a story of the archaeological discovery. Beginning with the excavations, he goes on to tell the story of the site itself.