11,000-Year-Old Mesolithic Child Burial Rewrites Britain’s Ancient Narrative
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Archaeologists in Cumbria uncovered the oldest human remains in Northern Britain—a 2.5–3.5 year-old female child buried in Heaning Wood Bone Cave around 11,000 years ago—accompanied by jewelry, with DNA analysis confirming age and sex, suggesting a deliberate Mesolithic cave burial and insights into hunter-gatherer rituals.
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