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Journey far beyond the Viking Age as we step nearly a million years into deep prehistory with experimental archaeologist and AncientCraft founder, Dr. James Dilley. Dan and Mags explore the earliest evidence of human activity in Britain—950,000-year-old footprints found at Happisburgh—and the geological science used to date them using Earth's reversed magnetic polarity.


​Dr. Dilley breaks down the experimental heritage build at Stanwick Lakes, where his team is reconstructing an authentic Bronze Age jetty over water. We uncover how ancient communities accidentally discovered copper melting and casting long before iron, and the shocking reality of Bronze Age diets revealed by the preserved time capsule at Must Farm—including parasites showing they ate raw pike.


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