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Michael Bott
@prehistoryguy.bsky.social
Half of The Prehistory Guys https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrehistoryGuys
Prehistoric #archaeology channel on YouTube with Rupert Soskin @prehistorybugguy.bsky.social since the Neolithic. Or maybe it just seems that way.
There it is!!! 🥳🤩🥰 100,000 subscribers!
Who would have thought? Huge THANK YOU to every one of you who have helped us get to this milestone. Absolutely amazing!
April 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Did you know that the oldest known worked wooden implement in the world was discovered in 1911 at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex? Most likely the work of Homo Heidelbergensis 420,000 years ago? Me neither. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clacton...
February 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
A recent paper has gone some way to solving some of the mystery surrounding the extraordinary 25,000 year old mammoth bone dwellings of Western Russia & Ukraine. We'll be recording a show about this on Thursday so watch out for it at the weekend! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Apparently it's #tombtuesday so here's Wayland's Smithy up on the Ridgeway near the Uffington White Horse.
December 17, 2024 at 2:59 PM
No prizes for guessing where - but why? Actually, hunting for an 11,000 year old saddle quern from Abu Hurayra. As you do.
December 14, 2024 at 3:27 PM
This is a saddle quern - but not just any saddle quern. It's the driver of the next Prehistory Guys film. Can anyone guess why?
December 13, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Well, that's Neolithic Lakeside Settlements sorted! Podcast recorded - now to the edit. Watch out for publication in a few days. #RealArchaeology 🏺
December 10, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Happy Monday 😊 You maybe won’t be surprised to learn that this morning’s podcast recording for our Patreon fans is all about how gobsmacked we are that lakeside dwellings in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe are so under the radar. How big does the elephant in the room have to be?
December 9, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Our latest UNPLUGGED review of recent prehistoric archaeology news & discoveries is up on YouTube now. (This is a recording of a live show for our Patreon supporters). #RealArchaeology 🏺
youtube.com/live/Zcw-Hdm...
December 9, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Goodness. Is that the time already?
December 4, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Can anyone tell me please, why don’t we hear more about prehistoric lakeside pile dwellings? Why do the LBK in their longhouses get all the headlines when folk at the same time were living over water on stilts? #archaeology #neolithic #prehistory
December 3, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Monday morning so a 'Monday Moot to record'. This'll be the 150th weekly Patreon-only podcast we've recorded. How did that happen? Huge thanks to all our supporters!
December 2, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Where else but Long Meg? Rupert @prehistorybugguy.bsky.social with some of the participants on our 2019 tour of megalithic Britain. #StandingStoneSunday
December 1, 2024 at 4:50 PM
More Packwood.
November 29, 2024 at 3:38 PM
So so lucky to have the National Trust @nationaltrust.bsky.social Just 14 miles from us (among others) is Packwood house for example, where Sharon and I have spent most of today.
November 29, 2024 at 3:36 PM
It’s weird watching Wolf Hall on a flat screen tv in a home that was a new build when Henry VIII came to the throne.
November 28, 2024 at 9:59 AM
#TombTuesday. Well, eleven of them actually. In Finistere, Brittany, Barnenez Cairn is the largest megalithic burial site in Europe and one of the oldest man-made structures in the world (4,800 BCE). How come when they built early they also built big?
November 26, 2024 at 6:49 PM
'HERE'S A DISPILIO TABLET I MADE EARLIER'!
Obviously we have far too much fun to be taken seriously. (Show coming soon).
November 26, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Drone shot from 2020.
November 25, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Well - this'll be a shocker for some! 😲 Here's the thumbnail for our latest special coming out in the next week sometime ... a heads up about the Dispilio Tablet and how a simple case of mistaken identity has led to people being wrong on the internet. Who would have thought? Coming soon! 😊
November 25, 2024 at 2:43 PM
It’s that time when Rupert & I record the ‘Monday Moot’ for our Patreon folk. Still the Dispilio Tablet won’t lie down - I’m afraid it’s 30 mins of us talking about some of the rabbit holes it’s taken us down over the past few days. Step away from the origins of writing … step away …
November 25, 2024 at 12:31 PM
November 24, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Ah! That would explain what's going on here at the Géant de Manio, just up the hill from the Manio alignments, Carnac.
November 24, 2024 at 11:42 AM
What can we say? Thanks a million X 10! Hard to take in really for a YouTube channel about old stuff. AND we're fast on our way to 100,000 subscribers ... anytime in the next few months we reckon. Thank you all. 😊
November 22, 2024 at 4:54 PM
This (just to tease the special we're going to do) is absolutely NOT the Dispilio Tablet. Despite what the internet may tell you! Watch this space ...
November 21, 2024 at 2:47 PM