Home : a time traveller's tales from British prehistory / Francis Pryor.
Description: xxxii, 319 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781846144875 (hardback)
- Time traveller's tales from British prehistory
- 936.1 23
- GN805 .P79 2014
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 936.1 PRY | Available | 059391 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1.After the Ages of Ice (9600--8000 BC) -- 2.The Re-Settlement Gathers Pace (8000--4000 BC) -- 3.Early Farmers (4000-3000 BC) -- 4.The Emergence of Rural Britain (3000--2000 BC) -- 5.The Age of Stonehenge (2500--1500 BC) -- 6.The New Order (1500--1000 BC) -- 7.After the New Order: Celtic Britain (1000 BC--AD 43).
In Home Francis Pryor, author of The Making of the British Landscape, archaeologist and broadcaster, takes us on his lifetime's quest: to discover the origins of family life in prehistoric Britain. Francis Pryor's search for the origins of our island story has been the quest of a lifetime. In Home, the Time Team expert explores the first nine thousand years of life in Britain, from the retreat of the glaciers to the Romans' departure. Tracing the settlement of domestic communities, he shows how archaeology enables us to reconstruct the evolution of habits, traditions and customs. But this, too, is Francis Pryor's own story: of his passion for unearthing our past, from Yorkshire to the west country, Lincolnshire to Wales, digging in freezing winters, arid summers, mud and hurricanes, through frustrated journeys and euphoric discoveries. Evocative and intimate, Home shows how, in going about their daily existence, our prehistoric ancestors created the institution that remains at the heart of the way we live now: the family. "Under his gaze, the land starts to fill with tribes and clans wandering this way and that, leaving traces that can still be seen today...Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it". (Guardian). Former president of the Council for British Archaeology, Dr Francis Pryor has spent over thirty years studying our prehistory. He has excavated sites as diverse as Bronze Age farms, field systems and entire Iron Age villages. He appears frequently on TV's Time Team and is the author of The Making of the British Landscape, Seahenge, as well as Britain BC and Britain AD, both of which he adapted and presented as Channel 4 series.
