Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

About the Editors

Editors’ Preface

Author’s Foreword and Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 The Birth of the Stone Age

3 The History, Geography and Biology of Britain

4 Wilderness and the First Pioneers: One Million Years Ago

5 Lost Rivers and Coastlines: 600–500,000 Years Ago

6 Ice-Age Faunas and Floras: 450,000 Years Ago

7 The Great Interglacial: 400,000 Years Ago

8 Emergence of Neanderthals and the Mammoth Steppe: 320–200,000 Years Ago

9 Island Britain: 125,000 Years Ago

10 Repopulation: Neanderthals and Modern Humans: 60–30,000 Years Ago

11 The End of the Last Ice Age: 15–11,000 Years Ago

12 After the Ice and Into the Present World: 11–6,000 Years Ago

13 Conclusion: The History of Britain and the Wider World

Glossary

References

General Index

Index of Species

The New Naturalist Library

About the Author

About the Publisher