GÖBEKLI TEPE TO STONEHENGE

With your help, we are producing a series of 3 films that will tell the story of the first farmers, the genesis of the people who were inspired and audacious enough to express themselves in stone; to be the megalith builders.

We are thrilled to say WE HAVE ACHIEVED OUR FUNDING GOAL FOR THE PRODUCTION OF EPISODE 1 (see below) and have reset our goal to the funding of episode 2.

We are now scheduled to begin filming episode 1 in October/November of this year when we shall be starting our journey in Turkey at Göbekli Tepe.

EPISODE 1. OUT OF MESOPOTAMIA* (working title)
Travel with us as we tell the story of the first farmers of Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent and their development to be the first builders - as shown at sites such as Göbekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe and Çatalhöyük.
We will show how the lure of exotic materials from the west lured early traders and prospectors across the Aegean Sea to such places as the Greek Cycladic islands and beyond, spurring the spread of Neolithic culture into the Mediterranean Sea and north along the banks of the Danube river.

EPISODE 2: ALONG THE DANUBE TO THE NEOLITHIC HEART OF DARKNESS
Exploring the prehistoric archaeological sites of the Balkans, the Danube basin and the legacy of the earliest Neolithic people of Europe, the great Linearbandkeramic culture.
We visit sites that show evidence of earliest interaction between the farming incomers and the indigenous hunter-gatherers at Lepinski Vîr. The journey takes us through years of settled success along the banks of the Danube to what seems to be a decline into infighting and brutality.
Eventually though, this Northern strand of the Neolithic begins to show signs of settled farming beyond the fertile plains of the Danube in the form of a wealth of sites including the great ‘roundels’ and other henge-like structures of Germany and Austria.

EPISODE 3: THE MEGALITH BUILDERS AND THE ROAD TO STONEHENGE
What happened on Malta, Sardinia, and the other Mediterranean islands that had them birth some of the earliest and finest megalithic monuments we know of today?
How did materials from asa far away as the Italian Alps and the Mediterranean find their way across land and up the Atlantic seaboard to enrich and empower the great megalith builders of N.W. France and Brittany.
Finally, we arrive in Britain & Ireland. From the earliest settlements and tombs of the first farmers to the last hurrah on Salisbury plain of Stonehenge, what happened during all those years - in the final outpost of the Neolithic?

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