Digging for Britain

Mankind's Stone Age ancestors

Alice Roberts visits archaeological digs around the country to learn more about mankind's Stone Age ancestors, and travels to Jersey to meet a team hoping to shed new light on the Neanderthals. In the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire, she learns about an investigation into the mystery surrounding Stonehenge, and hears stories of cannibalism and the ritual use of human skulls during the Ice Age