Collins New Naturalist Library

Part of the bestselling "New Naturalist" series, Nicholas Aston - a curator at the British Museum for over 25 years - takes the reader back a million years to the Norfolk coast and paints a vivid picture of the first humans to arrive, following the remarkable survival of bones, footprints and stone tools.

About the author

Nick Ashton has been a curator at the British Museum for over 30 years, specialising in Lower and Middle Palaeolithic archaeology. He helps curate the extensive stone tool collections from these periods and has directed and published major excavation projects at the Lower Palaeolithic sites of High Lodge, Barnham, Elveden and Hoxne (all in Suffolk). He is currently Co-Director of the Pathways to Ancient Britain Project funded by the Calleva Foundation. His work focuses on the earliest occupation of northern Europe, currently being investigated through fieldwork at Happisburgh (Norfolk), the early human adaptation to northern environments and the investigation of when Britain first became an island.

Summary

Our understanding of the British Palaeolithic and Mesolithic has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and yet not since H. J. Fleure’s A Natural History of Man in Britain (1951) has the New Naturalist Library included a volume focused on the study of early humans and their environment.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Ashton, Ashton Nicholas
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.05.2017
• EAN: 9780008150358
• ISBN: 978-0-00-815035-8
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 216 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Collins New Naturalist Library; Collins New Naturalist Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Miscellaneous; NATURE / Ecology, popular science, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, NATURE / Birdwatching Guides, NATURE / Regional, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Early Man, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Rocks, minerals & fossils, Human Geography, Palaeontology, Historical geology and palaeogeology, Archaeological science, methodology & techniques, Environmental archaeology, Evolutionary anthropology / Human evolution