Late Mesolithic News Today

Major migration events in Holocene Eurasia have been characterized genetically at broad regional scales1–4. However, insights into the population dynamics in the contact zones are hampered by a lack of ancient genomic data sampled at high spatiotemporal resolution5–7. Here, to address this, we analysed shotgun-sequenced genomes from 100 skeletons spanning 7,300 years of the Mesolithic period, Neolithic period and Early Bronze Age in Denmark and integrated these with proxies for diet ...

Europes oldest shoes have been discovered remarkably well-preserved after lying inside a Spanish bat cave for more than 6,000 years.

BOWLAND will be taken back to the Stone Age by Dr Rick Peterson with this years 12th Lord of Bowland Lecture.

Ulvåsa in Ekebyborna is a manor near Motala with two known major Medieval elite settlement sites. Excavations in 2002 proved that the unfortified Gamlegården site was established before AD 1100. The fortified Birgittas udde site has seen no archaeological fieldwork since 1924, when the main building's cellar was emptied and restored. Its date is only known to the extent that almost all moated sites of this kind in Sweden belong to the period 1250-1500.

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Mesolithic artifact unearthed in England! This well-preserved wooden piece dates back over 6,000 years making it the oldest wooden artifact from the UK to date.

The piece of oak was discovered lying in peat during the construction of an outbuilding at a property in Berkshire.

A metre-long piece of carved wood is more than 6,000 years old, making it the oldest carved wood in Britain, experts say.

It is believed to be the oldest carved wood ever found in the UK. The decorative markings were made by Late Mesolithic people 2,000 years before Stonehenge was built and 4,500 years before the Romans came to Britain.

The 3.2ft blackened piece of timber was found embedded in peat during the construction of an outbuilding at a property in the village of Boxford in Berkshire.