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Agreed.

I got the impression that they'd thought of the healing idea before they did anything else and tried to make everything fit in to that.

Quite disappointing really.

Agreed again. How on earth did they come up with the idea that the Amesbury Archer's injury was caused by a horse riding accident? Was the horse domesticated at this period?
They also kept on calling SH Bronze Age. Correct me if I'm wrong (as if!) but I thought that most, if not all, the construction was Middle to Late Stone Age.
The blogs on the BBC's history site are pretty scathing too. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbhistory/F2233812?thread=5912246

Nice photography though.
Jim.

sttomas wrote:
Agreed.

I got the impression that they'd thought of the healing idea before they did anything else and tried to make everything fit in to that.

Quite disappointing really.

And they didn't even do a very good job of that. The whole program was just a rehash of bits and pieces that have already been broadcast in one form or another... with the addition of the reviewed possible dating for the placing of the bluestones and a charred grain ( which could have blown in from miles away ).... oh! and a large dollop of self congratulatory praise from Darvill & Wainright.

I thought the whole program a waste of air-time, my time, and money. In future I'll stick to watching Time Team :-)