Movie: Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard

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David Attenborough
David Attenborough

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Professor Ben Garrod
Professor Ben Garrod

Self - Narrator

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    Sir David Attenborough joins an archaeological dig uncovering Britain's biggest mammoth discovery in almost 20 years. In 2017, in a gravel quarry near Swindon, two amateur fossil hunters found an extraordinary cache of Ice Age mammoth remains and a stone hand-axe made by a Neanderthal.

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    2021-12-30

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