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Video podcastPrehistoric stone circles: everything you want to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A Neanderthal skull and some of the tools used by the Neanderthals. (Photo by Getty Images)

General prehistory

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A model of the face of a Neanderthal woman in front of art depicting a prehistoric environment

General prehistory

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Cave painting showing animals being hunted.

General prehistory

Video5 key things to know about prehistoric cave art

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The Eridge Hunt, Boxing Day 1952

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A photo of Stonehenge with plains in the background

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Tourists at Stonehenge. We have no better idea today than 200 years ago what the people who erected these sarsens truly believed. (Getty Images)

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Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials

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Zdeněk Burian’s painting from 1952 offers a sympathetic portrayal of Neanderthals practising cannibalism. Self-assurance, even contentment, emanate from “It appears as a calm response to death, rather than murderous carnage,” writes Rebecca Wragg Sykes. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

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A statue of Tollund Man, a bog body from the Iron Age. (Photo by Getty Images)

General prehistory

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Aerial view reconstruction drawing of Maiden Castle

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Head and shoulders of a sculpted model of a female Neanderthal

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An 18th-century marble relief depicting Julius Caesar invading Britain by John Deare, a British neo-classical sculptor. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Newgrange Passage Tombs, Boyne Valley, County Meath, Ireland. (Photo by Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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The front facade of the prehistoric chambered tomb of Wayland's Smithy

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A Pictish stone carving featuring a salmon

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Image of a medieval skull showing arrow injury

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View of the Norse Buildings, L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site, Newfoundland. (Photo by Alamy)

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Old Norse: Page from the manuscript Codex Regius, which was written in Iceland and contains the poems of elder Edda. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

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