🍃 Join academic, writer and broadcaster, Professor Alice Roberts, as she examines the story of us, from single cell to civilisation. Catch her this November in Sydney and Melbourne! 🎟️ https://tktmstr.co/ProfAliceRoberts | Ticketmaster Australia

This book is about belonging: about walking in ancient places, in the footsteps of the ancestors. It’s about reaching back in time, to find ourselves, and our place in the world. We might think of Britain ‘beginning’ with the arrival of the Romans - when we start to have written records. But archaeology allows us to push back much further, into prehistory. And there, we uncover chronicles in stone, pottery, metal and bone. Burials are like time capsules - each one, a physical biography, written