-Here we are at the bottom of one of the shafts. It's a lot darker than it would have been in the Neolithic, because at moment there's a modern concrete cover just to protect the archaeology. The devision that would be open to sky, so the sun would b...
This is certain increase in amount of ever people willing to put into constructing monuments. 270 kilometers away in Norfolk, evidence of prehistoric mining operation shows the extraordinary efforts the Neolithic people made to meet the demand for hi...
Five and half thousand years ago, Causewayed counties, like Crickley Hill and Robinhoods Bowl, were abandoned. Their decline signaled the end of large-scale hostilities in ancient Britain. In the relative peace that followed, monument construction in...
Crikeley Hill is just one of a number of violent clashes in soutnern Britain. It was a period of instablility that seems to have brought monument building in this area to a standstill. Excavated skulls from the period provided an insight into the sav...
-Crickley Hill gives us a completely new picture of the scale of violence in prehistoric Britain. It's really the first time that we see evidence for warfare between sub-communities or even groups of communities on a completely different scale to wha...
It consists of rings of circulated ditches with gaps in them. These gaps are the causeways, terms the name of cause but enclosure. Structure like Robbinhood Ball, brought with them the Neolithic concept dividing up the land. These monuments represent...
Without the nearby Long Burrows added to the map, this is how the area looked, 6000 years ago. The arrival of the Neolithic culture from Europe, reaffirms the landscapes sacred status. Stonehenge is a unique landscape. It capsulates how early societi...
Well, how we depict out the whole thing? This monument starts to become sense. You see this full court with palace side wall and this was the place where they prepared the dead for burial. Bones from excavated Long Burrows tell us new funeral practic...
Based on similar discoveries in continental Euro, professor Noibao identified it can be a long barrel tomb, known as a long barrow. 33 meters, that's a normal length of a continental long barrow. These are really huge buildings, and they actually get...
Then, around 8200 years ago, climate change had dramatic impact on the destiny of Stonehenge landscape. As the last ice age thawed, rising melt waters engulfed the territory known as Dogland and Britain became an island. Cut off from continental infl...
