Blog Post Archives - Prehistoric Britain

Stonehenge’s Chronological Mirage

Are Archaeologists Dating the Monument — or Dating the Material That Later Fell Into It? Stonehenge has one of the

Chapter 1 – The Ascent of Man – Book Extract “Man is unique not because he does science, and he

The Archaeological Evidence – Book Extract The Post-Glacial Flooding Hypothesis Chapter 4 What the Early Excavations Found Long before modern

Chapter 1 – The Legacy of the Ice Age Book Extract 1. Introduction Roughly twenty-six thousand years ago, the Earth

If Troy was really at Hisarlık, Homer has given us a geographical problem hiding in plain sight Before We Follow

Long barrows, long skulls; round barrows, round skulls—and a biological division archaeology has known about for more than 150 years

Introduction – A Revolution Built on Probabilities Over the past decade, ancient DNA has revolutionised archaeology. For the first time,

Introduction In 2018, a single scientific paper fundamentally changed the accepted history of prehistoric Britain. Published in Nature, the study

Introduction Scientific progress often begins with a simple question. What happens if we revert to the original measurements rather than

The Victorian Engineering Project That Challenges Everything We Thought We Knew About Britain’s Ancient Dykes Introduction For years, one of