the place we live, its climate, landscape and resources . . . and the particular stories buried beneath our feet’. Surely sentiments that are on the side of the angels. This book is easy to read and the well-researched science and archaeology are sandwiched between more accessible anecdotes, sub-folksy vignettes, and recollections that are rarely intrusive. They are certainly not as jarring as the chapter-separating poems, paintings and art photographs that have become such a pronounced feature of the many archaeology books intended for the interested ordinary reader. There are plenty of black and white illustrations and 22 in colour including Stonehenge and that Beaker Age superstar, the Amesbury Archer. The book remains slightly text-heavy but is informative to the end, finishing with a set of notes and suggested readings (which include primary literature) and a good index. We live, as they say, in interesting times, most closely akin perhaps to the late 1960s and early 70s. Pitts’ snapshot of the dominant themes within British archaeology is well informed and clearly demonstrates how many of them result from the application of external techniques and data, which range from electronic microscopes (sic) through fine-scale precise absolute dating, to gene-splicing. And he shows how these now influence what it now means to be human, European, British or even English, as liberally interpreted by him. This is another useful, well-written, incisive Mike Pitts book. It is a slight departure from his usual work, which is more tightly themed and sticks to one topic – a balanced Stonehenge study is overdue from him. Digging up Britain is more of an amuse-bouche. You can measure how good a popular text is by the number of occasions you put it down to google some new fact. This is full of them. It is definitely a book of its time, the miasmic influence of Brexit clouds much of the text but is a good read especially if you want to learn how archaeology is now being done and if you want to feel the current concerns of citizen archaeologists pouring forth in our new post (David) Reichian age.

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与死者交往：探索不断变化的人类对死亡、死亡和人体的信念

我们居住的地方、气候、景观和资源。. . 以及埋在我们脚下的特定故事”。当然是站在天使一边的情感。这本书易于阅读，深入研究的科学和考古学夹在更容易理解的轶事、亚民间小插曲和很少侵入性的回忆之间。它们当然不像分章的诗歌、绘画和艺术照片那么刺耳，它们已经成为许多供感兴趣的普通读者阅读的考古书籍的显着特征。有大量黑白插图和 22 幅彩色插图，包括巨石阵和烧杯时代的超级巨星埃姆斯伯里弓箭手。这本书仍然有点文字繁重，但内容丰富，直到最后，最后附上一组笔记和建议阅读材料（包括主要文献）和一个很好的索引。正如他们所说，我们生活在有趣的时代，最接近于 1960 年代末和 70 年代初。皮茨对英国考古学中主要主题的快照信息丰富，并清楚地展示了其中有多少来自外部技术和数据的应用，范围从电子显微镜（原文如此）到精细精确的绝对年代测定，再到基因剪接. 他展示了这些现在如何影响现在作为人类、欧洲、英国甚至英国的含义，正如他自由地解释的那样。这是另一本有用的、写得很好的、精辟的 Mike Pitts 书。这与他通常的作品略有不同，后者的主题更加紧密，并且坚持一个主题——他早就应该对巨石阵进行平衡的研究了。挖掘英国更像是一种娱乐。您可以通过将流行文本放在 google 上搜索一些新事实的次数来衡量它的好坏。这是他们的全部。这绝对是当时的一本书，英国脱欧的负面影响使大部分文本蒙上阴影，但如果您想了解考古学现在是如何进行的，并且如果您想感受公民考古学家当前的担忧，那么这是一本很好的读物在我们的新职位（大卫）赖希安时代。