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An ambitious yet accessible account of Britainâs Neolithic Revolution that examines how the early agricultural settlers on our island shaped their landscape â and thus our own.

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'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

Table of Contents
Preface • Prologue: A gift from the past • Part One: The Emergence of Humans • Part Two: The First Farmers • Part Three: Crossing the Water to Britain

The Tale of the Axe How the Neolithic Revolution

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      Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
      Publication Date: 13/05/2021
      ISBN13: 9780500293874, 978-0500293874
      ISBN10: 0500293872
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An ambitious yet accessible account of Britainâs Neolithic Revolution that examines how the early agricultural settlers on our island shaped their landscape â and thus our own.

      Trade Review
      '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

      Table of Contents
      Preface • Prologue: A gift from the past • Part One: The Emergence of Humans • Part Two: The First Farmers • Part Three: Crossing the Water to Britain

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