Built on bones : 15,000 years of urban life and death
Brenna Hassett (Author)
Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 12,000 years ago. You've got a choice - carry on foraging, or plant a few seeds and move to one of those new-fangled settlements down the valley. What you won't know is that urban life is short and riddled with dozens of new diseases; your children will be shorter and sicklier than you are, they'll be plagued with gum disease, and stand a decent chance of a violent death at the point of a spear. Why would anyone choose this? But choose they did. Why? This is one of the many intriguing questions tackled by Brenna Hassett in this book
Print Book, English, 2018
Paperback edition
Bloomsbury Sigma, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London, 2018