senholto's review against another edition
4.0
Excellent introduction to the archaeology of the last million years in Britain. As an avid enthusiast of hominin evolution I can point to a plethora of statements which could misinform the reader, but given the target audience, there will be no requirement to list them here. But I will make mention of one. When discussing why we have found so few sites prior to 500,000 years ago, the author relies far too heavily on the assumption that "there are far fewer actual archaeological sites". This may only be partially true. There is no doubt that discovery bias may explain why there not many discovered sites. This criticism represents the length I gave to go to to find issues with this work. You will not find nuance here. Read another more detailed book for that.
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