What are the origins of human beings? What do we know about the earliest humans? That we are able to provide at last partial answers to these questions is due to the efforts of scientists and archaeologists working in locations - many of them remote - across the globe. This talk is an introduction to those discoveries. We will look at the unearthing of the first human remains through to the 'bog bodies' of...
Peat bogs are present all over northern Europe, and in this talk, local historian and author John Wallace discusses their formation, location, composition and the bodies that they have yielded over the centuries, from Denmark and the Soviet Union to the United Kingdom and England - in particular Shropshire and the North West.This talk will also provide a general introduction to the...
