Hunter-gatherers shrugged off climate change discomfort
Evidence from a prominent UK site suggests lengthy cold snaps didn’t disrupt well established settlement. Jeff Glorfeld reports.
Scientists examining an internationally important archaeological site from about 8000 years ago, which hosted an active human hunter-gatherer society for several hundred years, have found that the community experienced multiple, severe, abrupt climate changes that affected regional temperatures, the landscape and ecosystems, -- but that activity at the site persisted regardless of these environmental stresses.
A British research team led by Simon Blockley of the University of London’s Royal Holloway public research university studied lake deposits adjacent to Star Carr, a Mesolithic site in North Yorkshire, which is known for its exceptional preservation of wetland hunter-gatherer activity.
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