Table of Contents
Preface 6
Prologue: A gift from the past 11
Part 1 The Emergence of Humans
1 Discovering deep time 24
2 Following the herds: Heidelbergs and Neanderthals 38
3 Great minds think alike: The emergence of modern humans 50
Part 2 The First Farmers
4 Gathering the abundance: Creating futures 66
5 The seeds of farming 83
6 Entangled in the farming web 99
7 Taking to the water: Leapfrogging along the Mediterranean 113
8 Across the river and into the trees: Farming spreads north 125
Part 3 Crossing the Water to Britain
9 The remote foragers of Britain 160
10 The forested islands 174
11 Farmers face the northern seas 204
12 Farming on the move: The arrival in Britain 223
13 Green treasure from the Magic Mountain 245
14 Creating places 262
15 Sacred landscapes: Pilgrims and pathways 291
16 If you build it they will come 315
17 Arise Stonehenge 334
18 New ages: New landscapes 353
Epilogue: Ploughing on regardless? 380
Appendix 395
Maps 396
Notes 398
Acknowledgments 425
Sources of illustrations 426
Index 427
