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Times Anvil
Zig-zagging between prehistoric stone tools and Tudor theatre primal wildwood and mass-produced cars TIMES ANVIL is a book like no other. Richard Morris brilliantly weaves a series of interconnecting studies of apparently unrelated things and periods that are normally considered in isolation. In the process he re-examines aspects of Englands story from the end of the last glacial period 12 500 years ago to the present touching upon such things as Britains apparent emptiness for long stretches of deep prehistory battlefields and the human element of the Industrial Revolution. Morris not only describes the evolution of archaeologys craft but also explores an awakening curiosity and an open embrace of the mystery of the identity of the early inhabitants of our land who have disappeared and
left little trace of themselves but were more like us than we think. Combining the personal with the academic amalgamating literature and myth with science and reflecting on how and why archaeology goes about its business the result is a fresh account of who we are and our relationship with Nature. Humanitys achievement writes Morris is to be the one animal out of one and a half million currently living on the planet to have discovered this story; its weakness is to suppose itself to be the storys subject. TIMES ANVIL challenges some popular assumptions of history such as Domesday Books comprehensiveness or the Romans as civilising colonists. The threads come seamlessly together a mile from where the book began at the graveside of Cardinal Newman. The result is provocative compelling and
salutary.
left little trace of themselves but were more like us than we think. Combining the personal with the academic amalgamating literature and myth with science and reflecting on how and why archaeology goes about its business the result is a fresh account of who we are and our relationship with Nature. Humanitys achievement writes Morris is to be the one animal out of one and a half million currently living on the planet to have discovered this story; its weakness is to suppose itself to be the storys subject. TIMES ANVIL challenges some popular assumptions of history such as Domesday Books comprehensiveness or the Romans as civilising colonists. The threads come seamlessly together a mile from where the book began at the graveside of Cardinal Newman. The result is provocative compelling and
salutary.
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