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Anthropology

theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts) Fri May 2, 2014, 07:06 AM May 2014

Amesbury in Wiltshire confirmed as oldest UK settlement

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-27238503
BBC News
1 May 2014
Amesbury in Wiltshire confirmed as oldest UK settlement

A Wiltshire town has been confirmed as the longest continuous settlement in the United Kingdom.

Amesbury, including Stonehenge, has been continually occupied since BC8820, experts have found.

The news was confirmed following an archaeological dig which also unearthed evidence of frogs' legs being eaten in Britain 8,000 years before France...

...David Jacques, from the University of Buckingham, said: "The site blows the lid off the Neolithic Revolution in a number of ways.... MORE