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A home for hunter-gatherers? Reconstructing ‘Britain’s oldest house’ at the Yorkshire Museum
A recent experimental archaeology project has seen the construction of a replica of one of Star Carr’s 11,000-year-old structures in York’s Museum Gardens. Carly Hilts visited the build and spoke to Professor Nicky Milner, Dr Jess Bates, and Dr Adam Parker to learn more.
The Museum Gardens in York are home to an impressive array of historic buildings, from the dramatic medieval ruins of St Mary’s Abbey to the imposing Roman masonry of the Multangular Tower, as well as the neo-classical grandeur of the Yorkshire Museum itself. During the second half of August, though, visitors to the site could also see a temporary new neighbour to these structures – rather more humble in scale, but based on much older remains: a reconstructed Mesolithic house that was based on evidence from Star Carr.
Around 11,000 years ago, the shores of Lake Flixton (near Scarborough in North Yorkshire) were fringed with occupation sites used by hunter-gatherer communities. Althoug
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