General prehistory

The Eridge Hunt, Boxing Day 1952

A brief history of Boxing Day

Pod Mike Pitts WL

General prehistory

Stonehenge: everything you wanted to know (part two)

GJ1HTR A standing stone at Borvemore, with a view to beaches beyond, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

General prehistory

Explore 8 little-known prehistoric sites in Britain

Stonehenge: Not a henge, but certainly a stone circle, and a very long-lived centre of human activity. (Getty Images)

Your guide to Britain’s prehistoric stone circles

A photo of Stonehenge with plains in the background

General prehistory

Secrets of Stonehenge When & how was it built?

Pod Mike Pitts WL

General prehistory

Stonehenge: everything you wanted to know (part one)

Sir David Attenborough and Professor Ben Garrod hold a large mammoth bone in front of a table of other bones

General prehistory

“What led a herd of mammoths to die here?”: Professor Ben Garrod on the remarkable mammoth graveyard discovery featured in new Attenborough documentary

Tourists at Stonehenge. We have no better idea today than 200 years ago what the people who erected these sarsens truly believed. (Getty Images)

General prehistory

Prehistoric religion: a pagan riddle we will never solve?

Francis Pryor explores the sensory world of prehistoric Britain. (Image by Getty Images)

General prehistory

Inside the prehistoric mind

Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials

General prehistory

Alice Roberts “Graves are like time capsules – little microcosms of prehistoric culture"

Alice Roberts reveals what archaeological discoveries and cutting-edge science can reveal about Britain’s prehistoric past.

General prehistory

Unearthing Britain’s prehistoric secrets

Barry Cunliffe considers the story of Brittany from prehistory to today, and explores the region’s connections with Britain. (Image by Getty Images)

General prehistory

Bretons, Britons, Celts & King Arthur

Zdeněk Burian’s painting from 1952 offers a sympathetic portrayal of Neanderthals practising cannibalism. Self-assurance, even contentment, emanate from “It appears as a calm response to death, rather than murderous carnage,” writes Rebecca Wragg Sykes. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

General prehistory

Neanderthal in the mirror: our changing perceptions of these ancient humans

A statue of Tollund Man, a bog body from the Iron Age. (Photo by Getty Images)

General prehistory

Q&A What are bog bodies?

Aerial view reconstruction drawing of Maiden Castle

A brief guide to the British Iron Age