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Mesolithic people occupied Britain by around 9,000 BC, and it has been occupied ever since. [25] By 8000 BC temperatures were higher than today, and birch woodlands spread rapidly, [26] but there was a cold spell around 6,200 BC which lasted about 150 years. [27]
The upper body of the Cheddar Man a Mesolithic skeleton. c. 9335–9275 BC The earliest date for structures and artefacts at Star Carr, Yorkshire, a site then inhabited for around 800 years. [17] c. 7600 BC Howick house, Northumberland, a Mesolithic building with stone tools, nut shells and bone fragments. c. 7150 BC
The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos 'middle' + λίθος, lithos 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic is often used synonymously, especially for outside northern Europe, and for the corresponding period in the Levant and Caucasus .
Star Carr is a Mesolithic archaeological site in North Yorkshire, England.It is around five miles (8 km) south of Scarborough. [1] It is generally regarded as the most important and informative Mesolithic site in Great Britain.
During the early Holocene following the glacial retreat at the end of the Last Glacial Period, the exposed land area of Doggerland stretched across the region between what is now the east coast of Great Britain, the Netherlands, north-west Germany, and the Danish peninsula of Jutland. Between 10,000 and 7,000 years ago, Doggerland was inundated ...
973 – 11 May (Whitsunday): Edgar, King of England 959–975, is crowned and anointed with his wife Ælfthryth at Bath Abbey by Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury. [5] The Church of St Swithin, Walcot, is founded at about this date. c. 980 – Ælfheah becomes abbot of Bath.
A flint arrowhead that was found in a field near Bridgend. This may relate to the end of the Allerød, a relatively warm period that lasted from c. 12,000 to 11,000 BC. This is the only find in Scotland to date from this early part of the Mesolithic. (S) [17] [18] 11,000–9640 Scotland-wide The Loch Lomond Stadial cold period. No evidence has ...
The prehistory of the County of Norfolk, England is broken into specific time periods, these being Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic .. Norfolk has a very rich prehistoric past, from the Palaeolithic era 950,000 years ago, to end of the Iron Age 2000 years ago.