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The Prehistory Guys

Michael Bott and Rupert Soskin

From the filmmakers who brought you ‘Standing with Stones‘, news, views, people & ideas from the world of prehistoric archaeology.

Episodes

20 of 65 episodes

Prehistory: What's the Big Deal?

Do we layer too much significance on people and things from prehistory and the past - simply because they are old? Do we confer special stat...

54:52Oct 30, 2024

Eye-opening study suggests Çatalhöyük population levels over-estimated

A new study out of Notre Dame University, Indiana has suggested that accepted estimations for population levels at Çatahöyük and other Neoli...

40:05Jun 4, 2024

WHY ARE THINGS WHERE THEY ARE? We explore some unusual perspectives.

Why do certain places take on significance in the human psyche? How do places of pilgrimage arise? Why are Göbekli Tepe, Stonehenge and othe...

44:55Apr 3, 2024

Obsidian - Black Stuff Revolution

In the process of developing and making Göbekli Tepe to Stonehenge, we're lifting the corner of the carpet on all sorts of aspects to do wit...

42:21Mar 6, 2024

GÖBEKLI TEPE REVELATIONS: Thoughts on 3 days at Göbekli Tepe.

As the first steps in making the Göbekli Tepe to Stonehenge film project, a few weeks ago Rupert and I spent three days at Göbekli Tepe with...

77:25Dec 10, 2023

Before Göbekli Tepe there was ... ?

In the very first 'Göbekli Tepe to Stonehenge' podcast, we aim to provide a context for the phenomenon of the T-Pillar sites of South Easter...

70:14Oct 26, 2023

Why Stonehenge isn’t a henge and what is a henge anyway?

Every week we make an exclusive short podcast for our Patreon supporters called 'The Monday Moot'. It's a kind of a sandbox where we air our...

25:58Nov 30, 2022

WERE MEN MAKING THE POTTERY AT THE NESS?

We take you to The Scottish Isles, Bohemia and South Carolina! More fingerprints on pottery have been found at the Ness of Brodgar and it tu...

16:01Nov 30, 2022

Should there be a Stonehenge Tunnel? Prof. Tim Darvill

This is an excerpt from a longer YouTube interview conducted with Professor Timothy Darvill in August 2021. The argument over the A303 Stone...

13:45Jul 25, 2022

Alien Rocks at Avebury Henge? | The Prehistory Guys bring us down to earth.

Hope you'll find it in your hearts to excuse the clickbaity title - but then again it is a truly valid use of the word 'alien'. The rocks in...

27:27Jul 22, 2022

Has Stonehenge been decoded? | The Prehistory Guys find out.

This is the audio from a Prehistory Guys YouTube video released in March 2022. https://youtu.be/ubMqZv_eozY Back in February we received an...

28:20Jul 22, 2022

GÖBEKLI TEPE REVEALED: What we know in 2022 | Dr. Lee Clare

🟢 IF YOU'D LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE - SEE OUR CROWDFUNDING LINKS BELOW 🟢 Dr. Lee Clare is the research co-ordinator and archaeologist in charge...

55:22Feb 9, 2022

INTERVIEW: Archaeologist SUE GREANEY: The Mega-Henge of Mount Pleasant

We talk with archaeologist Sue Greaney, Senior Properties Historian with English Heritage and Editor of PAST, the newsletter of the Prehisto...

47:40Dec 14, 2021

INTERVIEW: Alice Roberts | Ancestors, Time Team, Science and Archaeology

We're very proud to bring you our interview with Professor Alice Roberts - anatomist and biological anthropologist, author and broadcaster a...

44:38Nov 24, 2021

PODCAST #43 | INTERVIEW; Professor Tim Darvill O.B.E. of Bournemouth University

Our second interview with Tim Darvill and a riveting first-person deep dive through prehistoric archaeology from in-the-moment practical con...

61:25Oct 10, 2021

PREHISTORY FLASH #30 | Pythagorian geometry in ancient Mesopotamia and more ...

More for your money in this Prehistory Flash: we've expanded the format to include more than one item to help return us to more of the podca...

15:09Aug 28, 2021

PREHISTORY FLASH | Cosmetics in the Stone Age

This is ground breaking research from the Balkans where researchers are piecing together the apparently widespread use of cosmetics as far b...

3:27Aug 24, 2021

PREHISTORY FLASH | Paleolithic Tragedy on the Danube (11 MINUTES)

30,000 years ago, close to the banks of the river Danube, it seems that the saddest of events occurred to a family living there during the P...

11:05Aug 13, 2021

PODCAST #42 - INTERVIEW with Professor Lee Bray, head archaeologist of Dartmoor National Park

Welcome to another prehistory guys interview, introducing you to archaeologists and historians, all too often hidden behind the scenes, find...

71:18Aug 5, 2021

PODCAST #41 | Waun Mawn & Stonehenge

12th feb 2021 BBc broadcast a programme hosted by Professor Alice Roberts called 'Stonehenge, the Lost Circle Revealed'. Both leading up to...

47:52Mar 3, 2021