The Testimony of the Spade Author:Geoffrey Bibby Magnificent paintings first seen by a child in a cave in Spain...wooden piles uncovered in a Swiss lake...horns of solid gold found in a field in Denmark...a haunting primitive statue of a woman unearthed in Germany...the mysterious, monumental structures at Stonehenge in England...the grave of mammoth hunters in Russia...These were some of the ... more »starting points of the series of extraordinary archaeological investigations over the past two centuries that have entirely altered man's vision of European prehistory. To read this superlative book is to share the excitement of these discoveries and their thrilling illumination of the human past.
A fascinating account of the archaeological investigations that have brought to light the rich cultures of prehistoric Northern Europe by the author of Looking For Dilmun« less