List of Plates ix // List of Text Illustrations and Maps xiii // Acknowledgements xxiii // Preface: British <Peculiarity> xxv // Table: Dates and Periods xxx-xxxi // PART I: Another Country // 1 In the Beginning 3 // 2 Neanderthals, the Red ‘Lady’ and Ages of Ice 31 // 3 Hotting up: Hunters at the End of the Ice Age 57 // PART II: An Island People // 4 After the Ice 79 // 5 DNA and the Adoption of Farming 107 // 6 The Earlier Neolithic (4200-3000 BC). // Part 1: The Daily Round 134 // 7 The Earlier Neolithic (4200-3000 BC). // Part 2: Monuments and Pathways 162 // 8 The Archaeology of Death in the Neolithic 190 // PART III: The Tyranny of Technology // 9 The Age of Stonehenge (the Final Neolithic and Earliest Bronze Age: 2500-1800 BC) // 10 Pathways to Paradise (the Mid- and Later Bronze Age: 1800-700 BC) // 11 Men of Iron (the Early Iron Age: 700-150 BC) // 12 Glimpses of Vanished Ways (the Later Iron Age: 200 bc-ad 43, and After) // Afterword: Britannia: A Province on the Fringes of the Empire // 429 // Appendix: Places to Visit // Notes // Index