Derbyshire Cavemen

Derbyshire Cavemen
Author: Stephen Cliffe
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Amberley Publishing (July 30, 2010)

Product Description:
Derbyshire Cavemen explores the little known world of cave folklore and archaeology in a cave rich region encompassing the uplands of the Peak District and the surrounding areas. The WhiteA" and DarkA" Peaks of the Derbyshire/ Staffordshire/Cheshire and Yorkshire borderlands reveal their many legends and the archaeology of our prehistoric ancestors, whose DNA we share today, including Neanderthals...

Book Review:
Kevin Kilburn writes: The Peak District of Derbyshire is one of the finest prehistoric landscapes in Britain whose relative lack of destructive agriculture has allowed the preservation of surface artifacts, burial mounds and henges going back more than five millennia. It is also one of the few Limestone karst regions in the UK whose caves clearly demonstrate human inhabitation since the last Ice Age. Stephen Cliffe’s book amply illustrates their important place in UK archaeology... Megalithic.co.uk/