There's at least one site where you have a bone flute, and there are some perforated cattle bones, which may be whistles. So there's suggestions that there may be various kinds of music going on at these sites. I think they're quite mobile people in the late Neolithic. And we have got some smaller settlements that they're living in, but again, in a temporary fashion. It's very difficult to estimate community sizes from the settlement evidence because it is so rare.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss megaliths - huge stones placed in the landscape, often visually striking and highly prominent.
Such stone monuments in Britain and Ireland mostly date from the Neolithic period, and the most ancient are up to 6,000 years old. In recent decades, scientific advances have enabled archaeologists to learn a large amount about megalithic structures and the people who built them, but much about these stones remains unknown and mysterious.
With
Vicki Cummings
Professor of Neolithic Archaeology at the University of Central Lancashire
Julian Thomas
Professor of Archaeology at the University of Manchester
and
Susan Greaney
Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Exeter.