Britain has been an island for the past 7,000 years yet our historians have wrongly assumed that we Britons had no civilisation to speak of until the arrival of the Romans 2,000 years ago. This series puts the record straight.
Using reconstructions, aerial photography and computer generated imaging we'll be able to put forward a vivid and fascinating image of how advanced Britain really was in the five thousand years before Christ: In these films Francis Pryor will present the most comprehensive vision of pre-Roman Britain ever shown on television. Drawing on a sea of new evidence Dr Pryor, one of Britain's leading archaeologists, will paint a picture of the Ancient Britons that flatly contradicts the received wisdom that they were crude savages. They were in fact a highly developed people, with their own strong sense of culture, long before the Romans arrived. Understanding who we were then, he argues, is crucial to understanding who we are today. The Ancient Britons are not them, they're us.
