Fairweather Eden: Life Half a Million Years Ago As Revealed by the Excavations at Boxgrove - Hardcover

Pitts, Michael W.; Roberts, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880641940 ISBN 13: 9780880641944

Publisher: Fromm Intl, 1998

Synopsis

A tale of vision, determination, and triumph told through the eyes of those involved in over ten years of archeological excavations at the world's best preserved early human site. Describes how excavating Boxgrove Man opened a unique window on life as it was lived half a million years ago by our European ancestors, who were not simpleminded scavengers or primitive beasts but had the ingenuity to craft complicated tools and the foresight to track and kill large, dangerous game. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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They said it, not me!
‘An outstanding book’ Lewis Wolpert, Mail on Sunday (Non-fiction choice of the week)

‘An absorbing, charming, clever book’ Matt Ridley, Sunday Telegraph

‘A beautiful book, superbly written’ Stephen Aldhouse-Green, Journal of Archaeological Science

‘In setting a dynamic site in the context of a dynamic subject ... this book scores a big hit’ John McNabb, Antiquity

‘Highly readable and enjoyable ... a fascinating book’ Paul Bahn, New Scientist

About this edition

• Publisher: Fromm Intl
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0880641940
• ISBN 13: 9780880641944
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 356