The story of the later Stone Age - Interviews, news reports and fresh insights into the archaeology of 10,000 years of the Neolithic period.
By reporting on sites and discoveries from Mesopotamia to Wiltshire, familiar and less well-known, we are growing a podcast tapestry of how the people of the Neolithic developed and spread from the Near and Middle East across Europe and the Mediterranean to eventually become the megalith builders of NW Europe, Britain & Ireland.
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 with the Neolithic period that we perhaps would not have otherwise.
And so it is with the topic of this discussion - obsidian: we had absolutely no idea how...
Published 03/06/24
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 access to the whole site - we've been down amongst the T-pillars, we've seen the places where the people lived, we've seen excavations that are normally out...
Published 12/10/23