Peter Watson was born in 1943 and educated at the universities of Durham, London and Rome. He was deputy editor of NEW SOCIETY and spent four years as part of the 'Insight' team at the SUNDAY TIMES. He was New York correspondent of THE TIMES and has written for the OBSERVER, the NEW YORK TIMES, PUNCH and the SPECTATOR. He is the author of 13 books and has presented several television programmes about the arts. Since 1998 he has been a Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge.
Watson gathers academic research from numerous disciplines into a comparatively reader-friendly form. THE HERALD This is a fascinating doorstopper of a work THE SUNDAY BUSINESS POST Watson's fascinating theme compares the two great populations in the Americas and the 'Old World', separated in 15,000 BC, when the ice Age ended and the Bering Strait land bridge became submerged. THE LADY