The Barrow Keeper

The Barrow Keeper explores how ancient and prehistoric humans treated their dead — the graves, rituals, and quiet acts of care that reveal when we stopped being animals and became something else entirely. Hosted by the Barrow Keeper, an ageless storyteller, each episode digs into real archaeological evidence — flower burials, ochre-painted bones, healed injuries that speak of care — to ask what our ancestors' treatment of the dead tells us about being human.