Great Britain BC Episode 1 Francis Pryor
In this visually stunning series, bestselling writer and archaeologist Francis Pryor offers an inspiring new vision of Britain before the Roman invasion. It shatters the conventional wisdom that we were a relatively uncivilized bog people living on a foggy island, just waiting for the invaders to teach us how to live. Traveling from North Wales to Orkney, from the Cliffs of Dover to the Western Isles of Scotland, from Stonehenge to Maiden Castle, Pryor lifts the veil on what really motivated the ancient Britons and how who we were informs about who we are today. Traveling over a thousand miles north to Orkney and the Western Isles, it explores a stunning array of stone circles, pools and round tombs, revealing the ways in which the ancient Britons worshiped their ancestors and brought death into their homes . Descending to the big daddy of ancient British sites, Stonehenge, Pryor and other leading archaeologists are reinterpreting the entire spiritual landscape of pre-Roman Britain – as the passage of an entire community from life to death, expressed in a set of disturbing and impressive woodwinds. and stone monuments. At the end of his quest, Pryor convinced the British to put aside national denial of their own ancestors and see them as the remarkable people they were.
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