Professor Alice Roberts Signed Bundle: Ancestors and Buried

Prof. Alice Roberts

ISBN: 9781471188015S 9781398510036S

£36.00

Signed hardback copies of Ancestors and Buried by Prof. Alice Roberts.

Ancestors is hand signed to a bespoke bookplate.

Buried is hand signed to the page, and features blue sprayed edges.

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Description

Ancestors

This book is about belonging: about walking in ancient places, in the footsteps of the ancestors. It’s about reaching back in time, to find ourselves, and our place in the world.

We often think of Britain springing from nowhere with the arrival of the Romans. But in Ancestors, pre-eminent archaeologist, broadcaster and academic Professor Alice Roberts explores what we can learn about the very earliest Britons – from their burial sites. Although we have very little evidence of what life was like in prehistorical times, here their stories are told through the bones and funerary offerings left behind, preserved in the ground for thousands of years.

Told through seven fascinating burial sites, this groundbreaking prehistory of Britain teaches us more about ourselves and our history: how people came and went; how we came to be on this island.

Buried

Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearranged, from richly furnished Anglo Saxon graves to the first Christian burial grounds in Wales, Buried provides an alternative history of the first millennium in Britain. As she did with her pre-history of Britain in Ancestors, Professor Alice Roberts combines archaeological finds with cutting-edge DNA research and written history to shed fresh light on how people lived: by examining the stories of the dead.

Further Information

Format Hardback
Publisher Simon & Schuster Ltd.
Published 16/06/2022
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