Do These Ancient Artefacts Reveal When Humans First Came To Britain? | Digging For Britain 

You know who would really love to see those ancient stone tools ? Phil Harding !

This is something that has always interested me. When I was a kid I dug holes on our sandy lot and discovered all kinds of stuff. One was what was left of a pocket watch, and another was a third of a 1920 car's headlight lens. My grandfather told me I was likely to find anything as the neighborhood was over eighty years old and people back then buried their garbage.

Fantastic journey through history! Thank you!

MORE Alice please! I could watch and listen to her FOREVER!

The joy of this series is Alices excitment and interest in the places she visits , I could watch her talking about hitory and Archeology all day . 🙂❤🙏

Thank you Alice ❤🤗🥀

Bit weird but I always think these people want to be found and their stories told.

Alice is always so excited about explaining what is found. She clearly loves her work. 😊❤

Please don't block videos on Medieval History for viewers outside the U.S. I'm talking about the Chronicle - Medieval History Documentaries. I kindly ask you to let us see the videos. Thanks

22:50 I think the upside down cattle skulls were just placed that way to hold wooden poles in place. The horns would dig in to prevent the poles from moving or changing position. The stones only went up part of the wall, and the upper part of the wall would be made of wattle. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and a toy is just a toy.

Do we think that maybe this " rock art " was their way of saying to others " Look at what I saw " ?

I love searching for....artefacts. It's more fun finding...artifacts... But whatever.

21:00:00 Why would they assume the climate was the same as current? We’ve been warming from an ice age for the last 10,000 years.

It amazes me that they go cave exploring with an inadequate "torch" (English term for flashlight) Normally you buy the biggest & brightest torch with fresh batteries so the camera can see it, no?

I often have wondered how many times in my life have I possibly picked up a stone or wood, a shell perhaps, which was a piece of antiquity. I get a strange feeling when I see an actual piece of history in a museum, like looking in our family bible, or a great grandfather's mark carved on a tree he carved as a child. I wish I could go back, and keep that shard of flints instead of dropping it and moving on.

Great video , good interpretation of what may have happened all that time ago .🙂

Yeah Alice is definitely one of my All Time Favourites a long with, Mary beard xxxx

or...its just a figurine. I'm sure kids liked toys thousands of years ago.

Interesting material, well presented, but the tinge of ardor in mundane phrases lessens the impact of the truly amazing, and is quite tiring. Rather than all caps, the narration is all italics. Wonderful job otherwise.

guys when this video film is 2010 or 2024 plz answer

❤ Alice

The Orkney site is curious. It's such a hard and difficult place. With all the rest of Britain offering green, fertile fields, and certainly more comfortable and sustainable ground for putting down roots, why Orkney? Was the rest of Britain already occupied?

Loving " Wifey " 😊

Not what people usually call a small island.

"Frivolities like rock art"? Hardly frivolous, methinks.

First boat people

That looks like top quality flint; lovely colour. (9.28)

Why is it that cattle skulls did not disintegrate to a fine powder but the human body did? There is a hole that needs explaining.

❤ How old is this episode? Mick Aston with short brown hair?!

The further we go back in time, the greater the possibility of science merging with fiction and history becoming literature. But this phenomenon paradoxically also occurs in relation to the very recent past. Not because there are no reliable written sources, but because there are so many sources and the documentation is so vast that the historian is forced to make selections, excluding an immense amount of information from his analysis. Some people imagine that Artificial Intelligence will bring about a revolution in archaeological and historical studies. But I have doubts, because it is easier for an AI to spew anachronistic hallucinations than for a trained human to make serious errors when applying scientific methods to analyze sources from the past. And anyway, when a historian makes a serious mistake others can correct it, but mistakes made by one AI will be treated as information by other AIs in the future. Carefully purging outdated interpretations and theories when writing new history and archeology books is something human experts must do if they want to gain recognition in their field. Can this be programmed into an AI? I do not think so.

I ❤ Alice and the way she says the word "clues" 🤗

I love history, especially the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. Watching from Cape Town, I find your presentation absolutely captivating!

0:54 - Freeze frame...who could do this job better?

Ritual = "We don't know".

Wifey could just be a lost toy.

24:44 well if that ain't a meme idk what is.

Nick Ashton? It is not such a common name isn't it? Does he have anything - to do- ( relations ? ) with Professor Mick Aston from Time Team?

So sad they’ve decided to turn it all over to foreigners. 😢

WAR IS EVIL Reply

800k to a million? Give it a rest 😂 end of the last ice age was 12k year's ago