
1. In Our Ancestors' Footsteps - Happisburgh, Norfolk
Neil Oliver Podcast
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The Chance Surviving of Footprints
The footprints at goldcliff were made by mesolithic hunters around eight thousand years ago. It's almost like a biblical parableif you ask yourself, what will be discovered of you in a hundred thousand years time? And i'm not talking about anything deliberate, like a film you've made, or a diary you've kept, or a letter that you wrote. These are deliberate things. What casual act have you left behind in the landscape? A footprint and a a dropped penknife, a loss and initials scratched into a wall? You knowwa what will be discovery of you ina hundred thousand years? And what tiny, ephemeral trace will some one be invited to look at
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