David Miles explores a period of great societal change through the most iconic artefact of its time, the polished stone axe. With a new Afterword considering the latest scientific research, Tale of the Axe vividly demonstrates how, in altering and manipulating their own landscape, our ancestors set us on the path to the world we live in now – a world we are changing in significant, accelerating and often unpredictable ways.
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David Miles was the Director of the Oxford Archaeological Unit for many years, and worked on projects in Britain, France, Greece and the West Indies. In 1999 he became Chief Archaeologist at English Heritage, where he developed a maritime archaeology unit and a project to study the impact of slavery in England. He has written many books on archaeology, particularly on the Roman and Migration periods in Britain, and one on the origins of the British, The Tribes of Britain.
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