Jonathan McRae
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4,627 appearances
33 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Jonathan McRae’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And before that, we do have some sites and activity recorded during the Mesolithic, but it is scant.
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We have huts in dairy, flint pieces, and not an enormous amount more.
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And this is where everything ends, the so-called Paleolithic period, that is from 10,000 years way back to two and a half million years ago.
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This time period for humans simply did not happen on this island, it would seem.
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And at first, of course, this was the ice age, and as far as we knew, the entire country was under a glacier.
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There have been a couple of recent question marks though.
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A single butchered bear kneecap found by Marion Dowd from twelve thousand three hundred years ago, and a reindeer bone from thirty three thousand years ago.
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But there's a definite question mark around that one.
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Other than those two tiny pieces of evidence, nothing.
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But Genevieve has brought me to this cave for a reason.
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And she's not come alone.
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So this is the team that were going to help me understand the story of this cave.
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But in sending me down here, my producer Aidan had left out a key detail.
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Okay, so to see these um engravings, what exactly am I required to do here?
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Okay, and and ex and like the idea of this is not I don't love this idea, but um how how long of a crawl?
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three to five
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Right.
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Uh very much not looking forward to that.
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But I'm confused about something.
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The cave we're going to isn't a new discovery, but I'm told it holds ancient rock art.
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