Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland before the Romans by Francis Pryor, HarperCollins, £25, ISBN 0007126921 Reviewed by Barry Cunliffe
GIVEN the popularity of archaeology as a television spectator sport there is a surprising dearth of readable and authoritative books on the prehistory of Britain. The problem, I suspect, is that the subject matter is growing so rapidly, and interpretations change so fast, that most practitioners are frightened off. Not so Francis Pryor, whose idiosyncratic book Britain BC, perfectly fills the gap.
As a practising archaeologist of long-standing, Pryor is well aware of the difficulty of dealing with archaeological…
