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Sep 13, 2026
Ross BarnettHOST
They see the campfire and there's music, quite kind of haunting music, clearly not modern music.
Ross BarnettHOST
We see a guy with an antler headdress, which very much reminded me of... kind of star car, which is a site in England which has Mesolithic antler headdresses, like a whole bunch of them.
Ross BarnettHOST
So I think these guys actually did their homework.
Ross BarnettHOST
And they see that Stig is there.
Jonathan McCraeHOST
We're talking Newgrange, Nouth and Douth.
Jonathan McCraeHOST
Before that, we do have some sites and activity recorded during the Mesolithic, but it is scant.
Jonathan McCraeHOST
We have huts and dairy, flint pieces, and not an enormous amount more.
Jonathan McCraeHOST
And this is where everything ends.
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George NashGUEST
know what it is but it's something and then above it we have again more lines over here which show i think possibly the head of a cervid stylized head of the cervid and it's been carved with a flint tool so because it's the the the lines are so small and and very very tight The only thing that could be doing that is a flint tool.
George NashGUEST
So the assumption would be if it's a flint tool, it's been used by somebody from a stone age.
George NashGUEST
It could be the Neolithic, it could be the Mesolithic, it could be the Paleolithic.
George NashGUEST
I'm thinking that it's probably the Paleolithic, but again, Barbara and I are slightly sort of in debate about it, quite rightly so.
Carlos HoyosGUEST
Um, let me see.
Carlos HoyosGUEST
Um, well, uh, even though the, the big picture about the Neolithic and, uh, you know, the, the Paleolithic and then the Mesolithic, also called the Eneolithic, and then the Neolithic came about-
Richard VaughanHOST
Yeah
Carlos HoyosGUEST
... uh, that is, say, a mental framework, such as a, a, a, a physics theory.
Barry CunliffeGUEST
And Sulis is presumably the Iron Age goddess, the person revered here going right back in time.
Barry CunliffeGUEST
The earliest occupation is Mesolithic, going back to 7,000 BC.
Barry CunliffeGUEST
People will always have revered it You can imagine what it would have looked like at the time of the Roman conquest.
Barry CunliffeGUEST
The water brings up iron oxide and that would have spread red crusts around on this black mud.
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It was a peninsula, an extension of the European mainland, connected by a landscape that was itself home to people.
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Mesolithic communities the hunter-gatherers of the post ice age period the people who lived in europe between roughly ten thousand and five thousand b c e lived hunted fished and travelled across doggerland for thousands of years They were not passing through.
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They were not using it as a bridge to get somewhere else.
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They lived there.
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The Nabataeans were absorbed by Rome.
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The communities that sheltered in Derinkuyu moved to the surface and built houses on top of the city they had carved below.
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The Mesolithic hunter-gatherers of Doggerland retreated to higher ground and became the coastal peoples of Britain and Northern Europe.
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In every case the people moved on.
Matthew GabrieleHOST
Mm-hmm
Alexander Della SeraGUEST
... something like the Mesolithic, which is so much time, right? That's such a large amount of time.
Matthew GabrieleHOST
That's a lot of, that's a lot of years.
Matthew GabrieleHOST
Yeah.
Hugh NewmanGUEST
And yet, you know, people say, "Oh yeah, don't worry, the Romans did it," um, and so on and so forth, but there's no actual pure evidence of that, unfortunately.
Hugh NewmanGUEST
Then if you'd look into the, the historical reality of Baalbek, it was built upon this occupational mound or a tell, and this goes back to the Mesolithic.
Hugh NewmanGUEST
This go- so nearly the time we're talking about of Karahan Tepe and Göbekli Tepe, but in Lebanon.
Hugh NewmanGUEST
Um, and there's Phoenician ruins there, and then it was built on by the Romans and other cultures, medieval.
Hugh NewmanGUEST
We know an archaeologist out there, he's still convinced it's all Roman, the archaeologist we hang out with when we go there.
Hugh NewmanGUEST
And he can't change his mind for anything.
Hugh NewmanGUEST
He just can't do it, even though they found Mesolithic flints and things like this at the site of Baalbek itself and Neolithic finds and everything else.
Hugh NewmanGUEST
But yeah, it's one of the big megalithic mysteries of the planet Baalbek.
Jude CurrivanGUEST
Yes.
Jude CurrivanGUEST
Because if we do go back to Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, there wasn't really, from what I understand, and as you know, my PhD is in anthropological archaeology.
Jude CurrivanGUEST
My master's is in cosmology, physics, quantum physics.
Jude CurrivanGUEST
But the point is that the further back we go, there isn't that sense of self.
Jason ConcepcionHOST
Britain and continental Europe were once connected during the Ice Age.
Jason ConcepcionHOST
So this was like a Mesolithic plain of lagoons and farmlands.
Jason ConcepcionHOST
Varches and stuff, right? Yeah.
Jason ConcepcionHOST
And it was like, it went in stages.
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History Throughout the last 8,000 years, the northern part of Africa has experienced more than 200 dry-sick humid periods, which occurred approximately every 1,000 swan-sick years.
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Physical evidence from mummies found at Uwan Muhugiag and Tin Hanaka Tin suggests that the people living in the Central Sahara during the Mesolithic and pastoral periods had dark skin.
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This is also supported by the depictions of people in roundhead rock art.
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A 2000 Funfunsvansik genetic study of individuals from Takarkori, who lived seven years ago, discovered a previously unknown North African lineage.
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