Pre-Historic Britain

[vetuste_ennemi]

Just watched episode 1 of Neil Oliver's "A History of Britain" on BBC4 (series first shown 2011) covering the first settlement of Britain by modern humans after the end of the last Ice Age.

If you're interested in that stuff and hadn't seen the listing it's available on catch-up.

[tonyav]

I think that I've probably seen it, but I'll get it on iplayer. I like the stuff that Neil Oliver does.

[Peter Pedant]

thx there are some good progs around

( um which come around every now and then - every few years that is)

I think he does a short bit on human occupation before the last ice age - Nice ( its much nicer in Nice) there is a much longer period of human occupation as the glaciers never reaached that far south..

[sanmac]

If it's pre-historic how can there be any history records?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Re before the last Ice

Indeed. Swanscombe man - Neanderthal - and later humans which he speculated may have been a different human species.

I didn't catch up with early school memories until he mentioned Cheddar man.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Not written, Sanmac: artefacts, human remains etc.

[douglas9401]

It's like pregnant, sanmac, physical evidence of sex. ☺

[Peter Pedant]

// If it's pre-historic how can there be any history records?//
den dare no history den and we all go out to play early ...

Pre history is relatively late for us anglos AD 0 or thereabouts - but Egypt - this is late - they had crammed in 25 dynasties by that time.
Earlier ( in Egypt of course, because we er had no history) the written records were of a bronze age culture
( hieroglyphs and pharaohs that is!)

for us - that is two cultures before AD 0

and Linear B - minoan is another bronze age culture that had written records.

For us in the UK - 2% of the humps ditches and furrows in Hants and Darzet ( aaa rgh!) are bronze age and no written records...

just goes to show what you learn if you watch C-beebies

[Alonelywriter]

thanks for sharing amazing