Europe’s earliest infant female burial sheds light on Mesolithic funerary practices
Radiocarbon dating revealed the child, nicknamed 'Neve’, lived around 10,000 years ago
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Rethinking the jungle: the forgotten story of humanity and tropical forests
Humans and jungles are often seen as a poor combination. It is easy to write off the environment as challenging at best and a ‘green hell’ at worst. But could it be that tropical forests have repeatedly helped rather than hindered humanity’s progress? Patrick Roberts told Matthew Symonds why it is time to rethink the archaeology of the jungle.
New Light on the Neolithic of Northern England
The Neolithic is that pivotal point in prehistory where community changes, from dependence on hunting, fishing, gathering strategies based on seasonal availability to seasonal harvesting, animal husbandry, food procurement, and storage. Until recently, archaeologists took a broad-brush approach, sometimes ignoring…