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Stones Forum >> Banks Chambered Tomb on DFB tonight BBC2 9pm
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Runemage
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|  Posted 30-09-2011 at 09:45
Appears on tonight's "Digging For Britain", BBC2 9 p.m. It is open to the public until Halloween and there is also a feed from the featured cell nearby. It sits to the side of the Skerries Bistro.
Thanks to Howar
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Andy B
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| Posted 30-09-2011 at 14:57
In the final episode of the series, Dr Alice Roberts goes in search of our elusive Stone Age ancestors. Along the way she visits the Channel island of Jersey where she meets a team of archaeologists hoping to shed new light on the much-maligned Neanderthals, and embarks on a kayak survey of the coastline looking for undiscovered sites hidden in the cliffs.
At the Natural history museum Alice comes face to face with the dark side of our Ice Age ancestors lives - she sees evidence of cannibalism and the ritual use of human skulls. And she meets a team who are hoping to unlock the secrets of Stonehenge, not on Salisbury plain, but in the remote Preseli Hills of Wales.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015gpk0
The British Archaeology article on the La Cotte site on Jersey is now available to read online
La Cotte de St Brelade, on the Jersey coast, is a famous and spectacular site, where neanderthals apparently killed and butchered vast quantities of mammoth and rhino. Iconic though it is, the cliff-bottom cave was researched by earlier generations without access to ever-changing modern research technologies. Matthew Pope and his colleagues have a new vision for the site.
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba117/feat3.shtml
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rogeralbin
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| Posted 30-09-2011 at 22:44
I didn't manage to catch the documentary but I have often thought that the concept of cannibalism in ancient society has to be viewed alongside of the habit of enslavement. For example if in lean times there is not enough food resourses to go round you don't eat your family you cull the livestock and in this extreme incedance that includes the captive slaves. Harsh but true the slaves were livestock.
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| Posted 30-09-2011 at 23:21
As a Channel Islander I have to say my Great, Great Granny (300 times removed) would often remark on when they lived 120 miles to the West on the edge of the Continental Shelf and Great, Great (etc) Uncle Ug would drive them to the 'La Cotte, Tesco Butchery' for half a pound of Mamouth Chitlings or Wooly Rhino trotters.
The old girl always maintained that it was Ug's generations obsession with their Chelsea Tractors and fossil fuel heating that brought the Holocenene Climatic Optimum to an end, thats the trouble with those slopey forehead old school Neandathal women, they think climatic minimums follow climatic optimums, thankfully we of the 21st Centuary know better!
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Runemage
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| Posted 30-09-2011 at 23:42
It's on iplayer for the next 9 days, definitely worth a peek.
It starts with the Prescelli Hills and the burial place of someone who may have been instrumental in moving the bluestones from there to Stonehenge, (0 to 11 minutes) then it's straight to Orkney for a look at Banks and some of the finds. That lasts from 11 to 22 minutes so if anyone's pushed for time, that's the bit you want.
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coldrum
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| Posted 04-10-2011 at 14:08
Missed it but will catch up with it on iplayer. I do try and watch documentaries on prehistory when I can. I find they are few and far between.
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