General prehistory

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General prehistory

Q&A Where and when was wine first made?

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Anglo-Saxon treasures, and did Britain invent freedom? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Larry Siedentrop photographed for BBC History Magazine. (Image by Geraint Lewis)

Books interview with Larry Siedentop: “What is distinctive about the west is that the organising social role is no longer the patriarchal family and instead the individual” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Professor Richard Bradley investigates the Neolithic tomb of Wayland's Smithy. The stone monument we see today hides an earlier wooden structure that held the remains of 14 people. (Photo by Oliver Edwards)

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Isle of Tiree, Hebrides

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Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire

A Mayan funeral mask, made from jadeite and shell

The Maya and the apocalypse

Antique double-hemisphere map of the world, complete with landscapes and mythological scenes. (GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)

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St Fagans, Cardiff

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Clearwell Caves, Gloucestershire

In the 16,000 years after the end of the last Ice Age, societies in Eurasia and the Americas followed radically different trajectories. Here, an Aztec priest offers the heart taken from a living person to the god of war, Huitzilopochtli. (Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

The old world and the new

<> on May 30, 2014 in Kirkwall, Scotland.

Prehistoric village people: exploring the Orkney Islands

Interior of Neolithic Hut at Skara Brae Neolithic settlement, Orkney. Stone 'furniture' can be seen. The hearth is in the centre, and there are stone beds on the left and right sides, and a stone 'dresser' on the far wall. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Skara Brae

Stonehenge, aerial view

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Book review: A History of Ancient Britain

Lewis Chessmen found on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, probably made in Norway, about AD 1150-1200. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

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