2021/150: Scenes from Prehistoric Life: From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans -- Franc

2021/150: Scenes from Prehistoric Life: From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans -- Francis Pryor

We tend to think that people in the past judged everything from a practical perspective: were certain changes going to benefit the occurrence of wild game, or the growth of cereal crops? But in reality, they would also have had an emotional response to any changes that were happening around them. [loc. 638]

Fifteen 'scenes', beginning half a million years ago (Boxgrove, Happisburgh) and concluding with snapshots of life in Roman Britain: they're not so much scenes from prehistoric life -- though there's quite a bit of informed speculation -- as scenes from an archaeologist's life, rich with anecdote and simile.( Read more... )