The timeline
works well alongside other Historic England online resources, for example the teaching notes, presentations and activities exploring life in Bronze Age Britain through the exciting story of the
recent excavation at Must Farm in Cambridgeshire; and a whole range of images for the period featuring
archaeological sites around the country, tools and remains and modern reconstructions of homes and settlements.
Now,
recent work by Dorian Fuller, an archeobotanist, and his team at the University College London, is filling in the story of rice from multiple directions using genetics and
archaeological data to map the emergence and spread of rice in all of its varied production systems.