Full name: Fairweather Eden: Life Half a Million Years Ago As Revealed by the Excavations at Boxgrove

Authors: Michael W. Pitts, Mark Roberts Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780099644910 0099644916

In 1993, archaeologist Mark Roberts and his team found a human shinbone that turned out to be 500,000 years old-and thus marked the discovery of Europe's oldest known man. Fairweather Eden is the story, through the eyes of those involved, of over ten years of archaeological excavations at Boxgrove in Sussex, England, the world's best-preserved early human site, the discovery of which is causing a major shift in our understanding of the true origins of humankind. It reveals our earliest ancestors to have been hominids who were far more sophisticated than the primitive beasts they were believed to have been, able to craft complicated tools and to track and kill dangerous game. 16 Pages of Black-and-White Photographs/Illustrations Throughout Glossary/Bibliography/Index Similar books: The Man in the Ice by Konrad Spindler Lives in Ruins by Marilyn Johnson Before Civilization by Colin Renfrew Britain BC by Francis Pryor Britain Begins by Barry Cunliffe Ancient North America by Brian Fagan Gods, Graves & Scholars by C. W. Ceram The Goddess and the Bull by Michael Balter Written in Bones by Paul Bahn First Peoples in a New World by David J. Meltzer The First Americans by James Adovasio A History of Archaeological Thought by Bruce G. Trigger The Life and Death of a Druid Prince by Anne Ross Archaeology from Space by Sarah Parcak In Small Things Forgotten by James Deetz