Farmers in Prehistoric Britain

Francis Pryor - regular contributor on Channel 4's Time Team and the man behind the Britain BC and Britain AD television series - maintains that early farming in Britain has been largely misunderstood, due to a loss of contact with the countryside and failure to understand prehistoric farming methods. To redress this problem, this book reconstructs the lives of prehistoric farmers, with the author drawing on his academic research and practical experience, as a professional farmer, to provide details on crop cultivation and flock management. Pryor also shows how, in the millennium leading up to about 700 BC, certain areas of lowland England developed an intensive style of livestock rearing. The success of these prehistoric 'agri-businesses' made many communities extremely prosperous - so prosperous that they were able to bequeath fabulously valuable objects of bronze, iron or even gold to the world of their ancestors. This they did by carefully placing their wealth within rivers, lakes and meres.

ISBN:	9780752438672
Publisher:	The History Press
Imprint:	The History Press
Published date:	01 Feb 2011
DEWEY:	630.9361
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	159
Weight:	458g
Height:	244mm
Width:	173mm
Spine width:	12mm

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