Fairweather Eden: Life Half a Million Years Ago as Revealed
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pitts, Michael / Roberts, Mark, PUBLISHER: Fromm International, Archaeologist Mark Roberts had been digging in a gravel quarry in Sussex for more than a decade before anyone took much notice. In , his team found a human shinbone, which turned out to be years old -- and thus marked the discovery of Europe's oldest known man. Fairweather Eden is the story, through the eyes of those involved, of over ten years of archaeological excavations at Boxgrove in Sussex, England, the world's best-preserved early human site. it is an extraordinary, tale of vision, determination, and ultimate triumph. Boxgrove Man, it emerges, lived in a "fairweather Eden" also inhabited by lions, rhinos, elephants, and wolves.Excavating him and his uniquely preserved environment has opened a unique window on life as it was lived by our ancestors in Europe half a million years ago. These were not simple-minded scavengers, nor were they primitive beasts driven only by a desire to kill. From evidence of the ingenuity, needed to craft complicated tools and the foresight necessary to track and kill large, dangerous game, a new picture of early humans emerges. The work of Mark Roberts's team at Boxgrove will cause a major shift in our understanding of the true origins of humankind.