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    The Tale of the Axe: How the Neolithic Revolution Transformed Britain

    The Tale of the Axe: How the Neolithic Revolution Transformed Britain

    by David Miles


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      ISBN-13: 9780500773468
    • Publisher: Thames & Hudson
    • Publication date: 08/23/2016
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 384
    • File size: 38 MB
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    David Miles is former Director of Archaeology and Chief Archaeologist at English Heritage, and over his long career has worked to excavate and conserve some of the most important archaeological sites in the British Isles.

    Table of Contents

    Preface 6

    Prologue: A gift from the past 11

    Part 1 The Emergence of Humans

    1 Discovering deep time 24

    2 Following the herds: Heidelbergs and Neanderthals 38

    3 Great minds think alike: The emergence of modern humans 50

    Part 2 The First Farmers

    4 Gathering the abundance: Creating futures 66

    5 The seeds of farming 83

    6 Entangled in the farming web 99

    7 Taking to the water: Leapfrogging along the Mediterranean 113

    8 Across the river and into the trees: Farming spreads north 125

    Part 3 Crossing the Water to Britain

    9 The remote foragers of Britain 160

    10 The forested islands 174

    11 Farmers face the northern seas 204

    12 Farming on the move: The arrival in Britain 223

    13 Green treasure from the Magic Mountain 245

    14 Creating places 262

    15 Sacred landscapes: Pilgrims and pathways 291

    16 If you build it they will come 315

    17 Arise Stonehenge 334

    18 New ages: New landscapes 353

    Epilogue: Ploughing on regardless? 380

    Appendix 395

    Maps 396

    Notes 398

    Acknowledgments 425

    Sources of illustrations 426

    Index 427

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    How the New Stone Age shaped our world

    Approximately 12,000 years ago, early humans in western Asia and Europe who had been itinerant foragers, subsisting on what food they could find, slowly began settling in one place. They farmed and domesticated animals, created new tools, built monuments, and began preserving and storing food. What brought about this shift? What difference did it make to the overall population? And what effects did this Neolithic Revolution have on generations to come?

    The Tale of the Axe explores the New Stone Age—named for the new types of stone tools that appeared at that time, specifically the ground stone axe—taking Britain as its focus. David Miles takes the reader on a journey through Neolithic Britain by way of its ancestors, geographical neighbors, and the species from which humans emerged before turning an eye to the future and those aspects of the Neolithic Revolution that live on today: farming, built communities, modern man, and much more.

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