Episode 49

Cosmetics in the Stone Age

This is ground breaking research from the Balkans where researchers are piecing together the apparently widespread use of cosmetics as far back as six and a half thousand years ago.

Tiny ceramic bottles have been excavated across a wide region of the Balkans and Transdanubia, and as long ago as the 1930s it was suggested that they might be for cosmetics or medicines. So Bine Kramberger from the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, Christoph Berthold and Cynthianne Spiteri from Eberhard Karls University at Tübingen in Germany have analysed a number of pots from various locations, to try to identify exactly what these tiny vessels contained.

 

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Michael Bott

Michael was born on the Isle of Man in 1954. He is a professional actor, and among his many credits he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and worked at the Royal National Theatre for several years. Around the end of the 90’s he moved into video production and film making, developing ideas for television and freelancing as a corporate video producer. As a television producer his work includes “Henry Lincoln’s guide to Renne Le Chateau” and “The Man Behind The DaVinci Code” for Channel 5 and Discovery. His fascination for megalithic sites stems from early childhood when he was first taken to the Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire. His ‘magnum opus’ has turned out to be the subject of this site: ‘Standing with Stones’. and the Prehistory Guys project.
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Rupert Soskin

Rupert is principally a writer and photographer with particular leanings to archaeology and entomology. His interest in prehistory goes back over forty years, triggered by the wealth of megalithic sites he encountered on numerous backpacking trips across Dartmoor in Devon, south west England. Rupert wrote the book 'Standing With Stones' to accompany the film he and Michael made prior to becoming The Prehistory Guys. For any insect lovers out there, his most recent book is called 'Metamorphosis - Astonishing Insect Transformations'.