A series of six programmes giving a view of man and his expanding society seen in the archaeological landscape of the South.

Early man was a simple hunter, foraging for his food as and where he could. But he was displaced by the later farming communities who, more than 4,000 years ago, began to make an indelible mark on the countryside of England.
By the time of the Roman occupation, in fact, huge areas of forest had been cleared and parts of Britain looked much as they do today. Even so, archaeologists can read the land to this day and find out what man grew and how he lived.
Presented by Professor Barry Cunliffe from Chapman's Pool, Dorset
with Professor Geoffrey Dimbleby, Colin Bowen, Peter Reynolds
(BBC South)
(Book 80p: see page 51)