wideford
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Re: A History of Ancient Britain
Feb 08, 2011, 23:30
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Ireland is taken to mean the area of Wales settled by the Irish, like when somewhere is called Little Italy or Little China
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moss
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Re: A History of Ancient Britain
Feb 09, 2011, 09:32
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wideford wrote: Ireland is taken to mean the area of Wales settled by the Irish, like when somewhere is called Little Italy or Little China
Interesting Wideford, of course Pembrokeshire has a history of Irish inflow, I have often wondered about all those cromlechs perched on cliff tops facing over the sea to the West, probably feeling homesick, though of course now the county is called 'Little England' from a different type of holiday home colonisation...
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Littlestone
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Re: A History of Ancient Britain
Feb 09, 2011, 20:02
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baza wrote: A History Of Ancient Britain – Age Of Ice Episode 1/4
Wednesday 9 February
9.00-10.00pm BBC TWO and BBC HD
Bump.
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CARL
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Re: A History of Ancient Britain
Feb 10, 2011, 07:38
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Enjoyed the show last night.
I quite like Neil Oliver as a presenter.
Looks like next weeks episode should be good!
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Littlestone
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Edited Feb 10, 2011, 08:49
Re: A History of Ancient Britain
Feb 10, 2011, 08:45
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CARL wrote: Enjoyed the show last night.
I quite like Neil Oliver as a presenter.
Looks like next weeks episode should be good!
Yes good prog. No repeats or replicas, just a well-told account with the right amount of info for the non-stonehead. Might have missed it but although Neanderthals (and Boxgrove) were mentioned heidelbergensis wasn’t.
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tjj
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Re: A History of Ancient Britain
Feb 10, 2011, 10:29
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CARL wrote: Enjoyed the show last night.
I quite like Neil Oliver as a presenter.
Looks like next weeks episode should be good!
Yes I very much enjoyed it too, hard to pick out a highlight though was particularly fascinated by the footprints on the beach at Gwent. Was wondering if someone could tell me how archaeologists 'measure' the age of 'footprints' as I'd thought radiocarbon dating might be tricky.
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Sanctuary
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Re: A History of Ancient Britain
Feb 10, 2011, 11:00
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tjj wrote: CARL wrote: Enjoyed the show last night.
I quite like Neil Oliver as a presenter.
Looks like next weeks episode should be good!
Yes I very much enjoyed it too, hard to pick out a highlight though was particularly fascinated by the footprints on the beach at Gwent. Was wondering if someone could tell me how archaeologists 'measure' the age of 'footprints' as I'd thought radiocarbon dating might be tricky.
It's easy June...they had two big toes in them days :D
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A R Cane
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Re: A History of Ancient Britain
Feb 10, 2011, 12:20
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Yes good prog. No repeats or replicas, just a well-told account with the right amount of info for the non-stonehead. Might have missed it but although Neanderthals (and Boxgrove) were mentioned heidelbergensis wasn’t.[/quote]
No, but to be fair they did say there were other human-like creatures around at the same time. I agree, good so far, just hope they don't roll out the usual suspects too much, ie. Stonehenge, Avebury, etc. It would be nice to see some of the more obscure sites.
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Littlestone
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Re: A History of Ancient Britain
Feb 10, 2011, 14:46
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No, but to be fair they did say there were other human-like creatures around at the same time.
Yes you’re right – it’s just that the Boxgrove bones were shown but no mention by name of the ‘people’ (heidelbergensis) who were found there :-(
Sorry, I’ve got a bit of a thing about heidelbergensis. It could be argued that they were the first ‘people’ to inhabit what is now Britain; they were tall (around 6 foot), sophisticated toolmakers, possibly had speech and perhaps even buried their dead. They may also be the direct ancestor of both Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens.
While Neanderthals are at last shaking off the brutish image they’ve carried for so long, poor old (very old :-) heidelbergensis are barely given a mention.
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tjj
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Edited Feb 10, 2011, 17:33
Re: A History of Ancient Britain
Feb 10, 2011, 17:15
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Sanctuary wrote: tjj wrote: CARL wrote: Enjoyed the show last night.
I quite like Neil Oliver as a presenter.
Looks like next weeks episode should be good!
Yes I very much enjoyed it too, hard to pick out a highlight though was particularly fascinated by the footprints on the beach at Gwent. Was wondering if someone could tell me how archaeologists 'measure' the age of 'footprints' as I'd thought radiocarbon dating might be tricky.
It's easy June...they had two big toes in them days :D
Just in case there is anyone out there who, like myself, doesn't know everything, the Megalithic Portal had something that was helpful
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146412838
Also found this interesting article by Adrian Chadwick from Gloucestershire CC Archaeology Service
http://www.severnestuary.net/sep/pdfs/archaeology%20of%20the%20severn%20estuary.pdf
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