A Ancient history of Britain - Wednesdays at 9.00 BBC Two.

PatsytheNazi

Excellent programme on BBC presented by Scotsman Neil Oliver who is also an archaeologist, historian and author. I'm surprised no one has posted about it yet. Part two was on last night. It's the story of how Britain and its people came to be over thousands of years of ancient history formed by ice, stone, and bronze. It's on Wednesdays at 9.00 BBC Two.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xchyf

In the first programme one of the interesting aspects it brought up was about Boxgrove Man who was found in a quarry at Boxgrove, near Chichester, West Sussex. Though not human like homo sapiens, he was described as humanoid, a sort fo relative of Neaderthal man. He was believed to be 400,000 years old !!! http://www.biblicalcreation.org.uk/origins_archaeology/bcs063.html Also, Britain and the continent were still believed to have been still joined up to 6,000 years ago.


The first actual human discovered is believed to have been the Red Lady of Paviland from 29,000 years ago found in a cave in south Wales http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lady_of_Paviland

In the second part of the programme last night, it featured the The Carnac Stones in Britanny which are 3,000 prehistoric giant rock monuments erected by the pre Celtic people. Also the Céide Fields in North Mayo which are the oldest known field systems in the world, over five and a half thousand years old and are preserved beneath a blanket of peat over several square miles. One very interesting aspect that Neil Oliver raised was that the earliest farming cow bone bones found in Ireland pre date those of Britain by a thousand years or something, which throws in the very interesting puzzle of how farming seemed to have developed earlier in Ireland than Britain as previously it was unsurprisingly assumed farming was introduced from the continent to Britain and onto Ireland.
The Céide Fields http://www.museumsofmayo.com/ceide.htm

Excellent programme.

who the fug

Sorry just can't watch Neil Oliver ever

ejmaztec

who the fug wrote: »

Sorry just can't watch Neil Oliver ever

You must be missing out on an awful lot of interesting stuff then.:(

PatsytheNazi

ejmaztec wrote: »

You must be missing out on an awful lot of interesting stuff then.:(

Agreed, I think he's excellent, but I suppose everyone to their own.

who the fug

First and only time I sat down to watch him was Two Men in A Trench, where he was doing Culloden, one hour of condensing sentimental drivel


On the excellent Coast and I find his bits whatever