‘A powerful testimony to the value of archaeology in today’s world’ Brian Fagan
'Illuminating … As layered as the strata of an archaeological dig, this is a moving portrait of a people at a cultural and technological tipping point'
Nature
'Colourful and lively writing and an eye to current issues and idioms play their part … This is first-person scholarship at its most humane'
Literary Review
'[Miles] presents his scholarly findings with glints of good-humoured individuality which make his book pleasantly readable, even by lay persons'
Spectator
'David Miles takes this archetypal artefact as a launchpad to explore a vast sweep of prehistory[…] with absorbing detail and an amiable turn of phrase … this new edition includes a thought-provoking afterword that brings the story up to date'
Current Archaeology
Format: Paperback
Size: 19.8 x 12.9 cm
Extent: 448 pp
Illustrations: 76
Publication date: 13 May 2021
ISBN: 9780500293874