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Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials

By Alice Roberts

Simon & Schuster, £20, hardback, 448 pages

Academic, writer and TV presenter Alice Roberts here brings her exuberant style to an exploration of how prehistoric people buried their dead. That may sound niche, but Roberts shows how it can tell us a great deal about

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