Ever wondered what prehistoric Britain was like ... It’s quite obvious… Ok, I’ll tell you… The Ice Age! Then it was warm. Then hot. Then cold again. Once that was out of the way humans ...
It is actually home to Britain’s only known Ice Age cave art. These ancient drawings were created by early humans around 13,000 years ago, making them some of the oldest examples of art in the UK.
A team of archaeologists from the Universities of Chester and Manchester has made discoveries which shed new light on the communities who inhabited Britain after the end of the last Ice Age.
At times, conditions were warm enough for hippopotamuses to wallow in rivers. At others, Britain was gripped by severe cold stages and large ice sheets covered much of the landscape, with little life ...
Dr Conneller said: "This changes our ideas of the lives of the first settlers to move back into Britain after the end of the last Ice Age. "We used to think they moved around a lot and left little ...