World of Stonehenge TV Listings
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Sat 11Age of Ice — World of Stonehenge
Neil Oliver explores the origins of Britain and its people, a story forged over thousands of years. In south Wales, he joins a team of archaeologists to examine 8,000-year-old footprints revealed beneath tidal mud banks, and abseils into a cave dating back 33,000 years. The historian also reveals how, as the last ice age receded some 11,000 years ago, Britain became an island, a fate that was sealed following a cataclysmic tsunami around 6,000 BC
More details for World of Stonehenge, Sat 11, 1:40 pm -
Sat 11Age of Ancestors — World of Stonehenge
Neil Oliver examines what impact the arrival of farming had on ancient social structures. He dives off the Isle of Wight where archaeologists have found an 8,000-year-old hunter settlement and learns what happened when hunter-gatherers met farmers for the first time. The historian reveals that when cultivation eventually came to Britain around 4,000 BC, it brought about the Neolithic era and a deep set of changes in people's way of life, from ground-breaking inventions like pottery, to new belief systems
More details for World of Stonehenge, Sat 11, 2:50 pm -
Sat 11Age of Cosmology — World of Stonehenge
Neil Oliver delves into the mysteries of the Stone Age and the meaning of the sacred monuments that were built throughout Britain and Ireland. He begins by visiting a 6,000-year-old axe factory in the Lake District to explore how the use of stone shaped a belief system that included the cosmos for the first time. The historian also joins people arriving in Stonehenge to celebrate the mid-summer sunrise, and learns about the religious and sociological significance of the monument
More details for World of Stonehenge, Sat 11, 3:55 pm -
Sat 11Age of Bronze — World of Stonehenge
Neil Oliver examines the consequences of the application of metal to everyday life. He travels to the south-west of Ireland in search of the first copper to be mined beyond mainland Europe. He also handles the possessions of the Amesbury Archer, which contained earliest copper and gold ever found in Britain, putting the islands with their rich natural resources at the technological forefront of the Bronze Age
More details for World of Stonehenge, Sat 11, 5:05 pm
