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The Subtropical Britain Hoax

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

Introduction For the last twenty years, science has been busy rewriting our ancestors with the stroke of a pen —

1. Introduction — The Forgotten Phase Most people imagine Stonehenge as the great sarsen trilithons. In fact, those belong to

Introduction — The Britain You Know Is a Fake (Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Britain’s Prehistoric Flooded Past) We

Introduction Over a decade ago, in my book Dawn of the Lost Civilisation, I proposed that the Americas were populated

Introduction Take a moment to picture the average Mesolithic person. What do you see? A ragged figure chasing deer with

Introduction Why are so many people captivated by archaeology? Is it the thrill of unearthing lost civilisations, the mystery of