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056 Ancestors with Professor Alice Roberts

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What's So Special About the Almsbury Archer?

The almsbury archer. The most richly furnished copper age grave that's ever been discovered in britain and, i think, still in europe e. It is just extraordinary. He has the largest number of arrow heads buried with him that anybody's ever been found with which presumably were all ached a shaft. And ye, now, it's just an interesting time as well aso. I mean, for example, the science has come on in such a big way that modern finds, we'll able to extract so much from them.

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