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Gough's Cave In Cheddar Gorge, Somerset - One Of The First Inhabited Sites

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« on: July 16, 2009, 05:15:37 pm »










Horse hunting



They appear to have been hunting horses: "One of the puzzles from the previous radiocarbon dating was that some of the evidence for human occupation seemed to be divorced from the evidence for horse butchery," said Chris Stringer.

"Now they are right there together, so these people were probably following herds of horses across Doggerland (an ancient landmass once linking Britain to the rest of Europe) because of a large river system in the bed of the English Channel which was blocking the way from France."

Professor Stringer believes humans expanding out of southern France may have circumvented this river system by taking a detour into Belgium or the Netherlands, moving into eastern Britain across land that is now submerged under the North Sea.

However, after the warm period which attracted people back to Britain for the first time in nearly 10,000 years, the climate and environment changed again.

Birch forests expanded, which created a less attractive habitat for horses. In turn, the signal of human presence largely disappears from caves and becomes weaker and more scattered across the landscape.

Then north-west Europe plunged into the "short, sharp shock" of the Younger Dryas, a cold climate period which seems to extinguish the signal of human occupation altogether.

Cheddar Man, who lived in the cave 10,000 years ago, appears to belong to an entirely new population which arrived from the continent after conditions once again improved, said Professor Stringer.



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