Cro-magnon Archives - Prehistoric Britain

The Ascent of Man — From Survival to Systems

1. Humanity Before the Breakthrough For most of human history, change was painfully slow. Early members of the genus Homo

1. Introduction — Why This Debate Exists at All The problem with prehistoric archaeology is not a lack of data.It

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

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

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

In 2011, Swedish archaeologists found human skulls mounted on stakes at an 8,000 year-old burial site, representing a behaviour rarely