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Time's Anvil Author: Richard Morris

ISBN: 9780297867838 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 480 Published: 8 November 2012 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 24.0 x 16.3 x 3.8 Description: Zig-zagging between prehistoric stone tools and Tudor theatre, primal wildwood and mass-produced cars, Time's Anvil is a book like no other.

Richard Morris brilliantly weaves a series of interconnecting studies of apparently unrelated things and periods that are normally considered in isolation. In the process he re-examines aspects of England's story from the end of the last glacial period 12,500 years ago to the present, touching upon such things as Britain's apparent emptiness for long stretches of deep prehistory, battlefields, and the human element of the Industrial Revolution. Morris not only describes the evolution of archaeology's craft but also explores an awakening curiosity and an open embrace of the mystery of the identity of the early inhabitants of our land, who have disappeared and left little trace of themselves but were more like us than we think.

Combining the personal with the academic, amalgamating literature and myth with science, and reflecting on how and why archaeology goes about its business, the result is a fresh account of who we are and our relationship with Nature. 'Humanity's achievement', writes Morris, 'i...

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