/ Lead title / Includes PS Section As in 'Britain B.C.' and 'Britain A.D.' (also accompanied by Channel 4 series), eminent archaeologist Francis Pryor challenges familiar historical views of the Middle Ages by examining fresh evidence from the ground. / Francis Pryor regularly features on the television programme 'Time Team' and also on the radio and in the press. His written work has been published with great acclaim, gathering momentum book by book. / Medieval archaeology is enjoying a renaissance. New sites, opened up by wartime bombing, recent urban development and new laser-aided survey methods, have been investigated, and archaeologists' findings have transformed our understanding of urban society. The Society for Medieval Archaeology was founded as recently as 1957. / A challenging thesis: 'Britain B.C.' showed that British civilisation predated the Romans; 'Britain A.D.' disproved the Anglo-Saxon invasions; this book shows the modern world being born well within the Middle Ages.
Francis Pryor is one of Britain's most distinguished living archaeologists, and the excavator of Flag Fen. He is the author of Home, Britain BC, Britain AD, Seahenge and The Making Of The British Landscape.
'Pryor's performance in this book remains a hugely entertaining one.' Sunday Telegraph '[The book lets in] new and fascinating light.' Scotsman 'Francis Pryor is that rare combination of a first-rate working archaeologist and a good writer, with priceless ability of being able to explain complex ideas clearly!Herein lies a great pleasure of Pryor's writing!The author's eclectic interests and his passion for a past he considers deeply relevant to the present drive "Britain in the Middle Ages". This is popular archaeology at its best: engaging, knowledgeable and provocative, driven by the author's zestful, insatiable curiosity. One can only hope that Pryor makes good his threat to write a book on the archaeology of the 20th century. It will be an eye-opener." Times Higher Educational Supplement Praise for 'Britain B.C.': 'It bounds along, wonderfully enlivened by Pryor's earthy enthusiasm. If you want to be introduced painlessly to the fascinating debates surrounding our British past, then Britain BC is the book for you.' Barry Cunliffe, New Scientist 'Francis Pryor is a modern field archaeologist with a reputation second to none. He has written a book as successful and exciting as its ambition is huge!lucid and engaging.' Alan Garner, The Times 'Splendid!a remarkable, imaginative and persuasive account of those other Britons before that [Roman] enslavement: its enthusiastic and confident approach deserves to be very influential.' Christopher Chippendale, Times Literary Supplement
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