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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

"Welcome to another prehistory guys interview, introducing you to people, often hidden in the background, whose work is really making a diff...

IT'S BACK! Rupert & I are delighted to present you with a recording of us producing our first audio podcast after a long break. We're back t...

Despite any number of challenges over the past six years, including more recently the Covid lockdowns of course, Amanda has kept driving the...

In fact, some of Tom’s recent research has even shed light on different funerary practices in the Bronze Age, revealing some fascinating dis...

The aim of these two chaps is to transform the economy of Caithness, no less - up in the North East corner of Scotland! And the medium by wh...

However, she has a particular passion for Iron Age torcs, running a website with restorer Roland Williamson called The Big Book of Torcs. ht...

Elizabeth Dale A.K.A. 'The Cornish Bird' can trace her heritage in Cornwall back more than 500 years. As you probably know, from a megalithi...

It was an absolute delight talking with Caroline & Tom about their insights into what it was like living in the Iron Age. This is archaeolog...

We met Seren in 2019 at the Prehistoric Society’s 'Landscapes of the Dead' conference at the Society of Antiquaries in London where she gave...

We do try to bring you wide ranging areas of study and this month we’re delighted to be joined by Professor Duncan Garrow of Reading Univers...

True to form, The Prehistory Guys chase down another media headline to find the hidden treasure! In this case, news of a new date for old Lo...

We were saddened to learn of the passing of the great archaeologist. For megalithic enthusiasts, his influence has been profound and that ho...

The Prehistory Guys talk to environmental archaeologist and conchologist (snail expert) Dr Mike Allen, lecturer at Oxford University and res...

In December 2019 reports began to appear in the media about the discovery of an anomaly in the Callanish landscape on Lewis that pointed to...

A couple of podcasts back, we interviewed Professor Bruce Bradley - he of the Solutrean Hypothesis in Paleolithic America. Truth be told, th...

In 1980, archaeologist Julian Richards was invited to direct the 'Stonehenge Environs Project' which had been conceived to better understand...

Please support The Prehistory Guys on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/theprehistoryguys Though we say this ourselves, this interview with P...

Specially for patrons at the STONE $3 and above levels, here is the first in a new series of exclusive podcasts for your enjoyment. "Every w...

We have to confess we are not as knowledgable about American prehistory as we would like to be. But how could we have done better to begin e...

The Prehistory Guys are very proud to share with you this fantastic interview with Dr. Alison Sheridan, recently retired Principal Archaeolo...

Ancient craft and brewing specialist Merryn Dineley, together with her brewing expert husband Graham join us to discus how the general unawa...

Earlier in December, news articles began to show up reporting the discovery of very old cave art on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Wha...

We're kicking off our regular interview features with our good friend and colleague Dr. Rick Pettigrew of the Archaeological Legacy Institut...

Does our ancient landscape lie to us? Well, there is a sense in which we are deceived ... or is it we who deceive ourselves? Michael and Rup...

When things don't seem so great in the present, it's easy to idealise the past. Not so fast! Archaeology has thrown light on some remarkable...

If we're talking about standing stones and the Neolithic, then we have to talk about origins ... and if we talk about origins we have to tal...

It seems ages since we last posted a podcast. But it's only just over a month - it must be that we've been incredibly busy! And some of that...

Since we began this podcast in March 2018, archaeological facts and finds have been coming at us fast and furious - so much so that it's bec...

Back in November 2018, we found ourselves sitting on the front row for the a lecture in the Wiltshire Museum by Dr. Katharine Walker of Bour...

We tend to thing of our ancient monuments as being special, unique places. But when you begin to count them, it slowly dawns on you that for...