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Britain Begins (Paperback)
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The last Ice Age, which came to an end about 12,000 years ago,
swept the bands of hunter gatherers from the face of the land that
was to become Britain and Ireland, but as the ice sheets retreated
and the climate improved so human groups spread slowly northwards,
re-colonizing the land that had been laid waste. From that time
onwards Britain and Ireland have been continuously inhabited and
the resident population has increased from a few hundreds to more
than 60 million. Britain Begins is nothing less than the story of
the origins of the British and the Irish peoples, from around
10,000BC to the eve of the Norman Conquest. Using the most up to
date archaeological evidence together with new work on DNA and
other scientific techniques which help us to trace the origins and
movements of these early settlers, Barry Cunliffe offers a rich
narrative account of the first islanders - who they were, where
they came from, and how they interacted one with another.
Underlying this narrative throughout is the story of the sea, which
allowed the islanders and their continental neighbours to be in
constant contact. The story told by the archaeological evidence, in
later periods augmented by historical texts, satisfies our need to
know who we are and where we come from. But before the development
of the discipline of archaeology, people used what scraps there
were, gleaned from Biblical and classical texts, to create a
largely mythological origin for the British. Britain Begins also
explores the development of these early myths, which show our
ancestors attempting to understand their origins. And, as Cunliffe
shows, today's archaeologists are driven by the same desire to
understand the past - the only real difference is that we have
vastly more evidence to work with.
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