Collins, St. James's Place, London, 1981. Hard cover, 287 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. Contents include: LIST OF PLATES; LIST OF FIGURES; INTRODUCTION; Figures in a Landscape; The Monument Builders; The Farming Community of Later Prehistory Roman Provincials; Continuity and Change, 400-900; Medieval Farmers and Townsmen; Wealth from the Land; RETROSPECT; GLOSSARY ; RADIO CARBON DATES; PLACES TO VISIT; BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX. [From front jacket flap] Scattered across Britain's south-western peninsula are a rich variety of monuments-Neolithic tombs, stone circles, prehistoric enclosures and settlements, churches and carved stones, bridges and mine houses which fascinate curious laymen and professional archaeologists alike. In her new book Susan Pearce shows how these remains can be interpreted to give us a coherent picture of human life in the south west over the last six thousand years. She traces the activities of Old and Middle Stone Age hunters in the world which finally emerged from the Ice Age, and describes how corm-growing and cattle- grazing farmers then settled in the peninsula, erecting their imposing tombs and mysterious stone alignments. She examines the farming communities of later prehistory, whose land boundary systems in areas like Dartmoor are only now being unravelled. She considers the impact of the Roman empire, and of its religion, Christianity, upon the peninsula's inhabitants; and looks in some detail at the intriguing history of the south west's villages, hamlets and towns. Finally she gives an account of the crucial role played by the mineral-rich peninsula in Britain's Industrial Revolution. This is the first attempt to tell the whole story of man in the south west, and much of the material presented here is new. With its highly illustrated text, useful bibliography and glossary, and information on places to visit, Susan Pearce's book provides an invaluable introduction to south west Britain and its past.

The archaeology of South West Britain (Collins archaeology)

History

Pearce, Susan M

Europe

Collins.

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Mathematics in archaeology (Collins archaeology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Orton, Clive

Archaeology

Sir Max Mallowan's autobiography provides an informal and often witty account of both his archaeological career and his life with Agatha Christie. His passion for archaeology, which took him and his wife acrossNorth Africa and the Near East, is paralleled by his obvious pride in Agatha's literary genius.

Mallowan's memoirs

Biographies & Memoirs

Mallowan, M. E. L.

Arts & Literature

The world atlas of treasure

Wilson, Derek A.

Ascent to Civilization, the Archaeology of Early Man

Gowlett, J.A.J.

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

<p>Two hundred years ago, India was seen as a place with little history and less culture.Today it is revered for a notable prehistory, a magnificent classical age and a cultural tradition unique in both character and continuity. How this extraordinary change in perception came about is the subject of this fascinating book. The story, here reconstructed for the first time, is one of painstaking scholarship primed by a succession of sensational discoveries. The excitement of unearthing a city twice as old as Rome, the realization that the Buddha was not a god but a historical figure, the glories of a literature as rich as anything known in Europe, the drama of encountering a veritable Sistine chapel deep in the jungle, and the sheer delight of categorizing 'the most glorious galaxy of monuments in the world' fell, for the most part, to men who were officials of the British Raj. Their response to the unfamiliar -- the explicitly sexual statuary, the incomprehensible scripts, the enigmatic architecture -- and the revelations which resulted, revolutionized ideas not just about India but about civilization as a white man's prerogative. A companion volume by the author of the highly praised India: A History and The Great Arc.</p>

India Discovered

KEAY, John

Asia

Harpercollins

Collins Field guide to archaeology in Britain (Collins guides)

Wood, Eric Stuart

<p>Part travelogue, part true-thriller, Edward Fox's brilliantly original book investigates the murder of a US archaeologist on the West Bank in 1992 and opens up the Palestinian world he served -- a Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil of Palestine and the West Bank.  On 19 January 1992, Dr Albert Glock -- US citizen, archaeologist and Director of Archaeology at Bir Zeit University in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was murdered by an assassin. Two bullets to the heart. The witness statements were confused, the autopsy inadequate. The police took three hours to arrive at the scene, from their HQ ten minutes away.  Who killed Albert Glock? The Palestinians blamed the Israelis, the Israelis blamed an inter-departmental feud at the university, or extreme Palestinian groups. But those close to Bir Zeit, to the political situation on the West Bank, had a simple line of advice: 'Look to the archaeology,' they repeated. 'Look to the archaeology.'  For Albert Glock had started to uncover truths about the distant Palestinian past which Israel found uncomfortable. For Israel, Palestine was a country without a people -- for a people without a country. Now Glock, through his archaeological finds, was showing that their version was flawed. He was publishing papers about the ancient traditions and settlements throughout Palestine, and discovering hugely significant facts about the ancient Palestinian way of life. Glock had given up a glittering career to teach at Palestine's beleaguered, besieged and underfunded university which faced closure at worst, and curfew at best -- daily.  Edward Fox's extraordinary book weaves together the story of Glock's murder with the history of biblical archaeology and the brutal, Byzantine politics of the intifada. It is written as a true-life thriller which opens up the Palestine in which Glock lived and worked, the people he knew and the turbulent politics of the middle east. This is brilliantly original writing and compelling storytelling quite unlike any other work yet published on the Middle East.</p>

Palestine Twilight: The Murder of Dr.Albert Glock and the Archaeology of the Holy Land

Fox, Edward

The Keys of Egypt: The Obsession to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Lesley and Roy Adkins

Ancient Civilizations

HarperCollinsPublishers

Never before have we attempted to measure as much as we do today. Why are we so obsessed with numbers? What can they really tell us?Too often we try to quantify what can't actually be measured. We count people, but not individuals. We count exam results rather than intelligence, benefit claimants instead of poverty. The government has set itself 10,000 new targets. Politicians pack their speeches with skewed statistics: crime rates are either rising or falling depending on who is doing the counting.We are in a world in which everything designed only to be measured. If it can't be measured it can be ignored.But the big problem is what numbers don't tell you. They won't interpret. They won't inspire, and they won't tell you precisely what causes what.In this passionately argued and thought-provoking book, David Boyle examines our obsession with numbers. He reminds us of the danger of taking numbers so seriously at the expense of what is non-measurable, non-calculable: intuition, creativity, imagination, happiness...Counting is a vital human skill. Yardsticks are a vital tool. As long as we remember how limiting they are if we cling to them too closely.Americans who claim to have been abducted by aliens = 3.7 millionAverage time spent by British people in traffic jams every year = 11 daysNumber of Americans shot by children under six between 1983 and 1993 = 138, 490

The Tyranny of Numbers: Why counting Can’t Make Us Happy

Boyle, David

Professionals & Academics

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