The Archaeology of Britain: an introduction from earliest times to the twenty-first century 

This is the third edition of a book which first appeared in 1999 and was first revised ten years later. Much has happened since then, and even the editors have changed. The new book is a collaboration between a prehistorian and a historical archaeologist, and it contains 20 chapters by a team of exceptionally well-qualified authors. It certainly lives up to its title. The separate contributions extend from the Palaeolithic period to what John Schofield calls the ‘Plastic Age’. It begins with a helpful introduction, which summarises recent developments in archaeology and explains why it was necessary to bring the story up to date. It concludes with an essay on the heritage environment wri