This module covers British and Irish Prehistory, in Atlantic European context, from the Neolithic to the end of the Bronze Age (4000-800 BC). Following a brief introduction to European Prehistory in Year 1, we now focus on the key issues currently under debate in British prehistoric studies: Neolithic sedentism and mobility, how we think about Stonehenge, the new science of a DNA, settlement and land use, ritual traditions and climate change, and the nature of prehistoric society. We consider how we have often constructed an uncritical understanding of the past, particularly its power structures, in our own image. As archaeologists of the post-colonial era, we instead investigate how a critical archaeology can work to discover the real 'difference' of the past. The aim is to gain a developed understanding of prehistoric social practice and a critical understanding of prehistoric studies.