When British archaeologists completed radiocarbon analysis of a skeleton that came to be known as Cheddar Man, they estimated his age at 10,000 years. They paused, amazed, and repeated the dating ...

An 11,000 year old pendant, the earliest known piece of Mesolithic art in Britain, may have been worn by a shaman, according to researchers. Cut from a single piece of shale into a triangle-like shape ...

COVENTRY, ENGLAND—A submerged archaeological site off the southern coast of England has yielded DNA from 8,000-year-old wheat. At the time, Mesolithic Britons were hunter-gatherers, but the DNA, ...

In 1903, a skeleton was discovered in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset's Gough's Cave. Decades later, scientists used radiocarbon dating to determine that the nearly complete skeleton is around 10,000 years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an unassuming farm field in Yorkshire, peat preserves secrets. Tens of thousands of fragments of wood, bone, antler, and stone ...

Ancient DNA from Cheddar Man, a Mesolithic skeleton discovered in 1903 at Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, has helped Museum scientists paint a portrait of one of the oldest modern humans in ...

An 11,000 year old engraved shale pendant discovered by archaeologists during excavations at the Early Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire is unique in the UK, according to new research.

Mesolithic Britain was thought to have been inhabited by hunter-gatherers, constantly on the move in search of food; however, the recent excavation of a dwelling in Northumbria reveals our Stone Age ...

In an incredible archaeological find, researchers have uncovered fishing traps and ancient footprints dating back 7,000 years in the mud of the River Severn. This astonishing revelation offers a ...

YORK, ENGLAND—An 11,000-year-old pendant has been discovered in lake-edge deposits at the Early Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire. It is triangular in shape, was carved from a single ...