Stone Age

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"

An aerial photo of Stonehenge

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Newgrange Passage Tombs, Boyne Valley, County Meath, Ireland. (Photo by Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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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

Old Norse: Page from the manuscript Codex Regius, which was written in Iceland and contains the poems of elder Edda. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

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A panorama of the man-made Neolithic structure Silbury Hill in Wiltshire. (Photo by Richard Fairless/Getty Images)

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Black and white image depicting engraving of Julius Caesar.

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In pictures: Stonehenge tourism

10,000 BC participants in their Mesolithic-style camp. (Channel 5)

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Aerial view of the Roman fort of Vercovicium

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