30 Sep 2001
Mastodon in your Backyard
A documentary about the 1999 discovery of a Mastodon skeleton in a Hyde Park backyard.
Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard
Sir David Attenborough joins an archaeological dig uncovering Britain's biggest mammoth discovery in almost 20 years. In 2017, in a gravel quarry near Swindon, two amateur fossil hunters found an extraordinary cache of Ice Age mammoth remains and a stone hand-axe made by a Neanderthal.
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David Attenborough Self - Narrator
Professor Ben Garrod Self - Narrator
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