Extensive Mesolithic discovery in Bedfordshire shows the importance of pits for understanding early Britain
Extensive Mesolithic discovery in Bedfordshire shows the importance of pits for understanding early Britain: In Britain, the Mesolithic period (10BC to 4000BC) was the last time people lived exclusively as hunter-fisher-gatherers. The recent discovery and excavation of a series of large Mesolithic pits at Linmere, Bedfordshire, is important for rethinking how historians have previously considered …