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Mick Aston is well-known from his appearances on Time Team, and is the author of many books including Interpreting the Landscape and Mick's Archaeology. He specialises in the study of early medieval landscape archaeology and monastic archaeology. Chris Gerrard is Professor of Medieval Archaeology mehr anzeigen at Durham University and directed many of the excavations at Shapwick as well as co-ordinating the writing up of the fieldwork. His main interests lie in later medieval and post-medieval archaeology. weniger anzeigen

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Monasteries in the Landscape (2000) 35 Exemplare
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This book is informative and interesting, and based on his research specialisation, but I found Mick Aston much more compelling as a jovial TV archaeologist on Time Team.
 
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sfj2 | Mar 16, 2022 |
I'm a big fan of archaeology and the British program "Time Team" is endlessly fascinating, to me. In the series, actual archaeologist and other specialists perform digs. Each episode covers a fast 3-day dig (usually somewhere in England) to discover something expected or known-but-lost. I learned a lot about the history of England, from the prehistoric to early 20th century.

This book is from that Team. Various experts (including Time Team's resident artist) give both learned opinion and specific examples from actual fieldwork. The basic setup is an invented town (Timechester), which allows a single location that can be given a history throughout the last 452,000 years. Give or take.

Everything is based on actual knowledge of numerous locations throughout the British Isles, transferred to Timechester.

Each chapter is a time period, from the Paleolithic (450,000 BCE), which is mostly a description of the location and some fauna and nomadic peoples who used it, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, High Medieval, Post-Medieval, Early Modern, to Present Day.

This is a good book for fans of archaeology, fans of extended British history, and fans of Time Team.

A great work that will continue to be of value, for many years to come!
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James_Patrick_Joyce | Oct 24, 2020 |
8/10 (very good): Easy to read and surprisingly practical, Archaeology Is Rubbish treads exactly the right line between too much and too little detail. A great read for all serious fans of Time Team.
 
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mark_read | 1 weitere Rezension | Aug 13, 2020 |
The definitive guide to the location, history, & significance of the world's most important archaeological sites & finds
 
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jhawn | 1 weitere Rezension | Jul 31, 2017 |

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