A History Of Ancient Britain

[invisibleplanet]

Someone must have heard my request! It's back on BBC One at silly o'clock in the morning with audio describing/signing, and also available on iplayer until 2:39AM Mon, 27 Jun 2011:

Watch: A History of Ancient Britain Series 1 - 1. Age of Ice

I particularly love this programme, because it shows our only cave art, which includes an ibis, discovered in 2003 at Creswell Crags - Church Hole Cave. Portable engraved artefacts have also been found at the complex of caves at Creswell Crags, including: an engraving of a man, made on the rib bone from a woolly rhinoceros, and; a horse, also engraved on a rib bone (http://www.creswell-crags.org.uk/explore/exhibition-objects/Topics/Crafts-Arts-And-Decoration).

 

[invisibleplanet]

For goldenecitrone re. coexistence of Neanderthals and Early Modern Humans (and anyone else who's interested), there's a good programme on now extinct hominid species and early modern humans on the Beeb at the moment, which presents all current thought:

BBC: Planet of the Apemen: Battle for Earth - 2. Neanderthal

 

[ringo]

I don't usually go for prehistoric dramatisations but this was quite watchable, and the rest was pretty good too.

 

[invisibleplanet]

I don't usually go for prehistoric dramatisations but this was quite watchable, and the rest was pretty good too.

It was watchable, and I don't normally enjoy prehistoric dramatisations either. I was a tad disappointed that the Neanderthal Man and the Early Modern Human (EMH) Woman didn't get together - they seemed to have some kind of fight or fuck thing going on between them until the other EMHs broke it up

 

[ringo]

Yeah, bit of homebrew and it would have all been going on

Probably would have confused the narrative a bit though, not to mention caused havoc with the prime time BBC scheduling.