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The Tale of the Axe - How the Neolithic Revolution Transformed Britain (Hardcover)
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The Tale of the Axe - How the Neolithic Revolution Transformed Britain (Hardcover)
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Focusing on the British Isles, the author explores a period of huge
societal change - the Neolithic, or 'New Stone Age' - through the
most iconic artifact of its time: the polished stone axe, using his
own ancient stone axe-head, given to him by a local quarry worker,
as a guide to the revolution that changed the world. These
formidable creations were not only crucial tools that enabled the
first farmers to clear the forests, but also objects of great
symbolic importance, signifying status and power, wrapped up in
expressions of religion and politics. Mixing anecdote, ethnography
and archaeological analysis, the author vividly demonstrates how
the archaeology on the ground reveals to us the evolving worldview
of a species increasingly altering their own landscape; settling
down together, investing in agricultural plots, and collectively
erecting massive ceremonial monuments to cement new communal
identities. As a direct result of the invention, and
intensification, of agriculture, the planet entered the
Anthropocene, or the current 'age of humanity': an era in which we
are changing the world around us in significant, accelerating and
often unpredictable ways. As the author poignantly concludes, our
ancestors set us on the path to the modern world we live in; now
seven billion humans must face the challenges that presents.
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