
Stone Age Europe
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 4,000 BC and 2,000 BC, with the advent of metalworking.
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Doggerland
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the growing understanding of the humans, plants and animals once living on land now under the North Sea, submerged in the Stone Age.
27 June 2019
Featuring: Vincent Gaffney, Carol Cotterill, Rachel Bynoe
The Neanderthals
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Neanderthals: who they were, how they lived, and how we are related to them.
17 June 2010
Featuring: Simon Conway Morris, Chris Stringer, Danielle Schreve