Mesolithic Archives - Prehistoric Britain

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

Archaeology’s Bayesian Mistake: Stop Averaging the Past

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 For over a century, British archaeology has repeated the same tale: Offa’s Dyke and Wat’s Dyke were built by

Introduction Hillforts have long been cast as the mighty defensive bastions of prehistoric Britain, iconic symbols of Iron Age tribal

Introduction I’m challenging the long-held belief that many sites across Britain, traditionally labeled as “Iron Age Hillforts,” were built primarily

Introduction We are all well-acquainted with the conventional narrative depicting the migration journey from Asia Minor to Britain, a tale