Blog Post Archives - Prehistoric Britain

Stonehenge: The Worlds First Computer

Stonehenge’s First Purpose: A Tidal Computer for a Flooded Britain For more than a century, Stonehenge has been framed almost

Introduction The a repeat episode of Digging for Britain (Season 11) turns its gaze to Caerfai Promontory Fort—also called Penpleidiau—a

Introduction Suppose we examine the skills of what traditional archaeologists call the ‘Megalithic People’ – the civilisation that created the

Introduction Historians and archaeologists have the Romans pretty sown up when it comes to how and why the Empire did

Promotional Video – Ancient Prehistoric Canals (Dykes) – Wansdyke Chapter 1 – Dykes, Ditches and Earthworks The modern word dike

1. When Myth Meets Measurement “It’s like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark

Introduction For more than a century, museums and textbooks have repeated the tale of a lush, palm-filled “tropical Britain” where

Introduction For half a century, archaeology has leaned on a comforting narrative: agriculture was “invented” in the Middle East and

Introduction Archaeology loves a tidy median. Give it ten millennia of activity at a monument and, all too often, it

Introduction Peering into the mists of prehistory, we discern figures as monumental as the structures they erected. The Cro-Magnons, our