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Britain has been inhabited by humans for over half a million years during which time there were a great many changes in lifestyles and in the surrounding landscape This book now in its second edition examines the development of human societies in Britain from earliest times to the Roman conuest of ADas revealed by archaeological evidence Special attention is given to six themes which are traced through prehistory subsistence technology ritual trade society and populationPrehistoric Britain begins by introducing the background to prehistoric studies in Britain presenting it in t.
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Prehistoric BritainErms of the development of interest in the subject and the changes wrought by new techniues such as radiocarbon dating and new theories such as the emphasis on social archaeology The central sections trace the development of society from the hunter gatherer groups of the last Ice Age through the adoption of farming the introduction of metalworking and on to the rise of highly organized societies living on the fringes of the mighty Roman Empire in the st century AD Throughout emphasis is given to documenting and explaining changes within these prehistoric communities and to expl.