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This book serves as a useful and informative synthesis of recent work on the latter centuries of the third millennium BC, a dynamic period in Britain’s Prehistory, and one which is increasingly, although by no means universally recognised as forming a distinctive British Chalcolithic. After setting out the evidence for the start of the Copper Age, and for the part played by immigration, Heath reviews in turn mining, Beakers and Grooved Ware, art, monuments and settlements and warfare. Plentiful illustrations accompany the text.