8,000-year-old encampment -- with tridents and war paint materials -- found in England

Brendan Rascius
Mon, August 28, 2023 at 11:10 AM CDT·3 min read

While excavating a floodplain in England, archaeologists stumbled upon an ancient site where hunter-gatherers once dined, danced and performed rituals.

The site, which dates back to 6,000 B.C., functioned as a Mesolithic mecca, seasonally drawing large groups from far-flung corners of northern Britain.

“It’s not a very typical site,” Fraser Brown, an archaeologist who worked on the excavation, told McClatchy News. “We knew we had something pretty unusual.”

It was uncovered by happenstance. While digging up a narrow stretch of land near Carlisle to make way for a road, archaeologists with Oxford Archaeology began pulling up troves of prehistoric artifacts.

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