Homo Britannicus

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Littlestone Oct 13, 2006 21:37:23

Slightly before our field of interest perhaps but, "When it comes to ancient European archaeology, the Germans have the Neanderthals, the French have some wonderful rock art and the Brits have a famous fake, Piltdown Man. At least, it used to be that way. More recently, archaeologists have laid bare Britain's rich prehistory, and it is well told and illustrated in this new book by Chris Stringer,* one of the UK's foremost prehistorians. For example, sites such as Boxgrove and Pakefield show that Homo Britannicus set up shop as a big-game hunter an astonishing 700,000 years ago."**

* Homo Britannicus: The incredible story of human life in Britain by Chris Stringer. Allen Lane. £25. ISBN 0713997958

** http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19225722.100-homo-britannicus-the-incredible-story-of-human-life-in-britain-by-chris-stringer.html

L Littlestone
Littlestone Oct 14, 2006 15:35:24
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Also by Chris Stringer and Peter Andrews, The Complete World of Human Evolution.* The style of writing looks nice -

"It had been a long, dry summer and the huge river had shrunk to a single deep channel, its many meanders now forming isolated water holes and reed beds. The land around the river estuary sloped gently down to a coast that curved eastwards in a sweeping bay for a hundred miles, the sun shimmering brightly on the calm sea. A solitary man... watched the grassy bank below, where his women and children were hacking with small stone tools at the carcass of a baby hippo..."

* ISBN: 0 500 05132 1 http://www.nhm.ac.uk/publishing/det_humevol.html