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8,000 year old footprints
Neil Oliver discovers fragile footprints made by ancient hunters who left imprints in soft mud near Newport, South Wales 8,000 years ago.
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BBC TV BLOG
Presenter Neil Oliver on what A History Of Ancient Britain meant to him personally: "To come so close to the way some individual, man or woman, was thinking all those millennia ago, while the Ice Age waxed and waned, was very moving for me."
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List of Locations
Goldcliff, Newport, Wales – Human footprints from 8000 years ago.
Natural History Museum, London – Boxgrove man and Cheddar Man (not on display).
Paviland Cave, Gower, Wales – Discovery of Red Lady.
Natural History Museum, Oxford – Boxgrove bones of Red Lady.
Creswell Crags Museum, Nottinghamshire – Horse head engraving and cave art.
Lake Of Mentieth, Scotland – The impact of glaciers.
Fiskary Bay, Coll – Mesolithic camp.
British Museum, London – Star Carr antler head-dress.
Montrose Basin, Scotland - Site of a tsunami impact. -
Reference List
'Homo Britanicus' by Chris Stringer
'After the Ice' by Steve Mithen -
Visit Ancient Britain with Hands on History
Create a stone circle, make a cave painting or use our guide to evoke the sights and sounds of ancient Britain.
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Hands on History Days Out
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Hands On History Animations
What would life have been like in prehistoric times? Watch our animation.
A Day in the Life...Of A 10-Year-Old in Ancient Britain
Credits
- Series Producer
- Cameron Balbirnie
- Presenter
- Neil Oliver
- Executive Producer
- Eamon Hardy
