About the Podcast
Göbekli Tepe to Stonehenge
The story of the Stone Age
The story of the later Stone Age - Interviews, news reports and fresh insights into the archaeology of 10,000 years of the Neolithic period.
By reporting on sites and discoveries from Mesopotamia to Wiltshire, familiar and less well-known, we are growing a podcast tapestry of how the people of the Neolithic developed and spread from the Near and Middle East across Europe and the Mediterranean to eventually become the megalith builders of NW Europe, Britain & Ireland.
By reporting on sites and discoveries from Mesopotamia to Wiltshire, familiar and less well-known, we are growing a podcast tapestry of how the people of the Neolithic developed and spread from the Near and Middle East across Europe and the Mediterranean to eventually become the megalith builders of NW Europe, Britain & Ireland.
About your hosts
Michael Bott
Michael was born on the Isle of Man in 1954. He is a professional actor, having been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and was at the Royal National Theatre for several years. Around the end of the 90’s he moved into video production and film making, developing ideas for television as a freelance video producer. His work includes “Henry Lincoln’s guide to Renne Le Chateau” and “The Man Behind The DaVinci Code” for Channel 5 and Discovery.
His fascination for megalithic sites stems from early childhood when he was first taken to the Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire. His ‘magnum opus’ has turned out to be our acclaimed film ‘Standing with Stones’ from which has grown the Prehistory Guys project.
His fascination for megalithic sites stems from early childhood when he was first taken to the Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire. His ‘magnum opus’ has turned out to be our acclaimed film ‘Standing with Stones’ from which has grown the Prehistory Guys project.
Rupert Soskin
Rupert is principally a writer and photographer with particular leanings to archaeology and entomology. His interest in prehistory goes back over forty years, triggered by the wealth of megalithic sites he encountered on numerous backpacking trips across Dartmoor in Devon, south west England. Rupert wrote the book 'Standing With Stones' to accompany the film he and Michael made prior to becoming The Prehistory Guys. For any insect lovers out there, his most recent book is called 'Metamorphosis - Astonishing Insect Transformations'.