Fairweather Eden: Life Half a Million Years Ago As Revealed by the Excavations at Boxgrove

A tale of vision, determination, and triumph told through the eyes of those involved in over ten years of archeological excavations at the world's best preserved early human site. Describes how excavating Boxgrove Man opened a unique window on life as it was lived half a million years ago by our European ancestors, who were not simpleminded scavengers or primitive beasts but had the ingenuity to craft complicated tools and the foresight to track and kill large, dangerous game. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.