- Michael Pitts
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Michael Pitts, who also writes under the name of Mike Pitts, is an English archaeologist who specialises in the study of British prehistory. He is the author of several books on the subject, and is the editor of British Archaeology, the publication of the Council for British Archaeology.
Gaining a degree in archaeology from the then-independent Institute of Archaeology in Bloomsbury, London before moving to Avebury, Wiltshire as the Curator of the Alexander Keiller Museum.[1] His first book, Fairweather Eden: Life in Britain half a million years ago as revealed by the excavations at Boxgrove (1998), which was co-written with fellow English archaeologist Mark Roberts, dealt with the excavations that had been undertaken at the Lower Palaeolithic site of Boxgrove Quarry by Roberts' team.
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Books
Title Year Publisher Other Information ISBN Fairweather Eden: Life in Britain half a million years ago as revealed by the excavations at Boxgrove 1998 Arrow (London Co-written with Mark Roberts. Hengeworld: Life in Britain 2000 BC as revealed by the latest discoveries at Stonehenge, Avebury and Stanton Drew 2000 Century References
Footnotes
- ^ Pitts and Roberts 1998. p. opening sleeve.
Bibliography
- Pitts, Michael and Roberts, Mark (1998). Fairweather Eden: Life in Britain half a million years ago as revealed by the excavations at Boxgrove. London: Arrow. ISBN 978-0099644910.
- Pitts, Mike (29 August 2006). "Sorry, ma'am, we don't dig it". The Guardian (London: Guardian Media Group). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/aug/29/broadcasting.channel41. Retrieved October 2011.
- Pitts, Mike (22 July 2010). "How significant is the 'new henge'?". BBC News (London: British Broadcasting Corporation). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10726307. Retrieved October 2011.
- Rees, Alun (12 October 2008). "English Heritage forced to pulp its aptly titled Ghastly Book Of Stonehenge over crass errors". The Daily Mail (London: Daily Mail and General Trust). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1076696/English-Heritage-forced-pulp-aptly-titled-Ghastly-Book-Of-Stonehenge-crass-errors.html. Retrieved October 2011.
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