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6. Star Carr in England wasn't agricultural
Mon Dec 18, 2023, 03:25 PM
Dec 2023

It was mesolithic, which means the inhabitants hunted and gathered what they needed to survive. The area was marshy, probably chosen for its resemblance to Doggerland by people who read the writing on the wall that Doggerland was sinking. They ate a wide variety of foodstuffs, using their proximity to water to draw thirsty game in. It was inhabited for about 800 years, possibly abandoned when the water table had risen and turned the whole area boggy.

People had begun to create permanent settlements thousands of years before climate change pshed them into the relative drudgery of farming, not the reverse.

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