CultureLab: Adventures of a prehistoric girl – Alice Roberts on her new book Wolf Road
The world, the universe and us
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The Importance of Being Human in the Past
I think throughout human history you and prehistory you see innovations occurring. We're very unlikely archaeologically to pick up the first time that somebody thought of a particular thing by the time we start to see it archaeologically it's probably an idea that's quite embedded. There are some ideas that kind of come and go and might disappear for a bit and then come back again. I suppose my main motivation is is the story and thinking about being human that far back in the past so I did want to bring that alive.
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