Britain’s 11,000-year-old “oldest northerner” was a 3-year-old girl, DNA reveals
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Martin Stables underground in Heaning Wood Bone Cave. Credit: University of Central Lancashire The oldest human remains ever discovered in Northern Britain have now been identified as those of a young girl who lived around 11,000 years ago. The remains were uncovered inside Heaning Wood Bone Cave near Great Urswick in Cumbria during excavations led by local archaeologist Martin Stables. The discovery provided some of the clearest evidence yet of Mesolithic burials in northern Britain. Three
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