11,000-Year-Old Mesolithic Child Burial Rewrites Britain’s Ancient Narrative
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.