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Very original features: Is this UK's oldest home?

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It's great news. It isn't going to cause the timelines of human migration to be re-written, but it adds more insight into how our ancestors lived in NW Europe. We've got similar evidence of semi or permanent abodes going back 10000 years across Eastern Europe and Northern Siberia.
 


What were they fleeing from? Were there some turbulent ethno/religious forment occuring on the continent, making it necessary for people to navigate the 20 odd mile channel to Britain?

It's an island. It's not like these people were following a migrating prey species. There must have been some motivation for them to move there. It seems like an act of real desperation.
 
What were they fleeing from? Were there some turbulent ethno/religious forment occuring on the continent, making it necessary for people to navigate the 20 odd mile channel to Britain?

It's an island. It's not like these people were following a migrating prey species. There must have been some motivation for them to move there. It seems like an act of real desperation.

If you read the article you would have seen:

Researchers from Manchester and York universities said the remains of the 3.5 metre wide circular structure at Star Carr, near Scarborough, date back 10,500 years when Britain was still linked to continental Europe.
 
If you read the article you would have seen:

Researchers from Manchester and York universities said the remains of the 3.5 metre wide circular structure at Star Carr, near Scarborough, date back 10,500 years when Britain was still linked to continental Europe.


Oh, Ok. I missed that.
 
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