Archaeologist and artist Rose Ferraby explores traces of human history in different landscapes around the British Isles. In ‘Wold’, she discovers layers of human history in Yorkshire’s celebrated chalk hills and describes her involvement in a dig at Thwing on the high Wolds at a Romano-British farmstead, a site which interacts with much older patterns of habitation.

Rose uses the lens of archaeology to reveal our impacts on the world. In EarthWorks she helps us see ourselves within previous patterns of change. Archaeology, we hear, is about imagination, with layers of time revealing people and their stories folded into the earth. At a time of considerable uncertainty about our future, could understanding our past interactions with the environment help us respond and adapt to whatever comes next?

Image: 'Dark Peak' by Rose Ferraby
Produced by Mark Smalley
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