Pre-historic Britain in Seven Burials with Alice Roberts

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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How much can a burial really tell us about our ancient past? Professor Alice Roberts is today's guest and, as her new book Ancestors demonstrates, old bones can speak to us across the centuries. Using new ancient DNA analysis techniques archaeologists are now able to uncover an unprecedented level of detail about the lives of our ancestors. Where they came from, what they ate, how they lived, what killed them and what their burials really mean. This is the story of unlocking the past of ancient Britain.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit.
0:04.3	Alice Roberts is a great friend and colleague.
0:06.7	She and I made a program about the Terracotta Warriors
0:08.8	together a few years ago and I got to go to China
0:11.0	with Alice Roberts and watch her do her analysis
0:13.6	of the skeletons that have been excavated there
0:16.8	in the mortuary complex of Chinchawande,
0:19.6	the first emperor of China.
0:20.7	My god, that was a great project.
0:22.5	Oh, looking back, tell you what.
0:24.4	And since then, Alice and I have been
0:26.0	lucky to work on a couple of things together.
0:27.8	She's a very brilliant scholar, a writer.
0:31.2	She's a very brilliant broadcaster
0:32.7	and she's now on the podcast.
0:34.3	This is happening, everybody.
0:35.2	It's not a drill.
0:35.8	Alice Roberts is here on this podcast.
0:38.6	She's talking about the prehistory of Britain
0:42.2	in seven burials.
0:44.9	Going back and seeing what we can learn
0:46.8	from the remains of some of the earliest
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