Post by UKarchaeology on Nov 27, 2015 14:13:53 GMT
Archaeologists have discovered stone and flint tools from the people who hunted deer and foraged for berries up to 11,000 years ago at what we now know as the University of Lincoln campus.
The team from Allen Archaeology have excavated tonnes of mud from 3 metres below the ground, and sifting the earth has revealed knives probably used for hunting and cutting meat and preparing plants for eating.
Gavin Glover, project manager, said: "There's a known Mesolithic flint scatter close to this particular site from somewhere between 9,000BC and 5,000BC and we have found a continuation of that.
"The finds are stone and flint tools, which tend to be small cutting blades for domestic use including hunting, butchering animals and preparing plants.
"There's no sense of Lincoln back then but it is evidence of some of the earliest human inhabitants in the area.
"The site would have been a sandbar at the edge of the water of what would have been the forerunner of the Brayford Pool.
"This was a time before farming when people would have lived in small groups moving through the landscape hunting deer and foraging for plants and berries."
Full story: www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/secrets-huge-hole-University-Lincoln-revealed/story-28241984-detail/story.html
The team from Allen Archaeology have excavated tonnes of mud from 3 metres below the ground, and sifting the earth has revealed knives probably used for hunting and cutting meat and preparing plants for eating.
Gavin Glover, project manager, said: "There's a known Mesolithic flint scatter close to this particular site from somewhere between 9,000BC and 5,000BC and we have found a continuation of that.
"The finds are stone and flint tools, which tend to be small cutting blades for domestic use including hunting, butchering animals and preparing plants.
"There's no sense of Lincoln back then but it is evidence of some of the earliest human inhabitants in the area.
"The site would have been a sandbar at the edge of the water of what would have been the forerunner of the Brayford Pool.
"This was a time before farming when people would have lived in small groups moving through the landscape hunting deer and foraging for plants and berries."
Full story: www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/secrets-huge-hole-University-Lincoln-revealed/story-28241984-detail/story.html