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Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales HD

Available for 3 months

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.

Professor Ben Garrod joins the team at DigVentures during the excavation as they try to discover why the mammoths were here and how they died. Could the Neanderthals have killed these Ice Age giants? Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Ben Garrod
Executive Producer:
David Dugan
Production Company:
Windfall Films Ltd

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