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When you think about brain surgery, you probably associate it with high-tec hospitals and strict medical training. Venture back thousands of years to the Stone Age to discover if our ancestors were really doing brain surgery too! Read More
It's time to put ourselves in the shoes of our ancestors and figure out what makes a great roof! Our trusty treewright Darren experiments with what materials were best for keeping dry and letting light in, and smoke out... Read More
Indiana Jones and spectacular scientists share a passion for digging into the past - and as an experimental archaeology site, so do we! But what makes experimental archaeology so amazingly different? Read More
Our Wyke Down roof is in need of some rafters! The team ventures into the woods to find the perfect tree, and even test the power of flint versus steel axes in felling timber... Read More
Our Wyke Down structure is still missing something! The team gets together to work on the next step, plus we experiment with how Neolithic builders coped without the help of metal tools... Read More
We know there's something special about our new Stone Age build, so to do it justice Thérèse and Darren set about experimenting with a spectacular new roof type we've never tried before... Read More
50 years after a mosaic at Badbury Roman Villa was bulldozed to make way for the new M4 motorway, we're finally able to put the rescued tesserae back in their rightful place as part of a Roman mosaic. Read More
When our Bronze Age roundhouse was filling up with smoke, we knew something was wrong. Several months and a lot of work later it's time to find out -- has our fix worked? Read More
How do we know what ancient buildings looked like, when all we have are marks in the ground? Thérèse meets up with treewright Darren to talk roofs, walls, and ask: could Neolithic builders make planks? Read More
The team is back to harvest our ancient crops! But this time, it's not the crops we're so interested in -- it's the tools. How does harvesting with flint tools work, and what can we learn about early farming by doing it ourselves? Read More