
Episode 148 - Ask the experts: Everything you want to know about the Neolithic period
The English Heritage Podcast
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Is There a Language in the Neolithic?
We have very little evidence for any definite sports or games, but there have been ideas put forward for the use of these curseless monuments i mentioned earlier. And it's quite possible that certain sporting activities did take place. We know from other cultures and societies that sport can be a major partof, you know, how society is organized. But the evidence is really not there. There are no gaming pieces, or any other sense of the sort of types of smaller games people might have played. Going back to the idea of sort of ceremonial hunting. At durrington walls, again, near stonehenge, we've got evidence. A couple of the domestic pig bones have got flint
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