Synopsis

Her travels span the distance from Orkney to Devon, traversing land, sea, and sky. This year, flint tools discovered in Norfolk push back the known timeline of human presence there by 200,000 years, suggesting habitation as far back as a million years ago. On Orkney, an early farmstead offers glimpses into the earliest religious beliefs and customs of our ancestors—cattle skulls buried within the walls of buildings, and small figurines that may have represented household deities. In Dev