# A Fairweather Eden

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- Book: [A Fairweather Eden](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-pitts/a-fairweather-eden) ([A Fairweather Eden.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-pitts/a-fairweather-eden.md))
- Authors: [Michael Pitts](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-pitts), [Mark D. Roberts](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-d-roberts)
- Publisher: Cornerstone Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4813-567-7
- Published: 2013-03-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The discovery of the remains of 'Boxgrove Man', a 'Missing Link' hominid half a million years old in chalk pits in Sussex made world headlines in May 1994. This was the most sensational archeological find in the UK since Piltdown Man - only this time it was not a hoax. Continuing excavation by site archeologist Mark Roberts has enabled him and his team to build up a picture of this, the first Englishman, and to open up a unique window on life in Britain before the Ice Age. Because these human remains, the artefacts surrounding them and the remains of the local flora and fauna - including elephants and rhinoceroses of an extinct species - are preserved in an unprecedented way, we now discover how our ancestors hunted, ate, manufactured the implements they needed to survive and interacted; these were neither the opportunist scavengers nor the mindless killers that they have previously been supposed to be. Boxgrove, therefore, represents a revolutionary view of the origins of mankind, and changes our understanding of what it means to be human.