ABSTRACT
In this age of high technology, mass communication and the passion to record even the most mundane details of everyday life in as many different ways as possible, it is sometimes hard to imagine a time when there was no writing, no sophisticated technology, and communications largely depended on word of mouth. Yet such conditions prevailed for half a million years or so before the Roman Conquest of Britain in AD 43, and during that time some of the foundations for life and culture as we know it today were laid down.
