Evidence of Stone Age Settlements Found
Friday, September 12, 2003
(12:50 PM ET)
The Associated Press
“Archaeologists thought that the sites left by people who lived five to ten thousand years ago had simply been lost to the sea, but our finds could change our understanding of the earliest occupation of the British islesâ€
An ancient clay figure of the lower half of a male body believed to date back to the Stone Age that has been found Monday is presented by archaeologists in Dresden, eastern Germany on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2003. The figure, which details a male body from the waist to the calves, measures eight centimeters (three inches) and is the first such representation of a man to be found in the area, believed to date from 5,000 B.C.
Image Credit: Matthias Rietschel -- AP
LONDON -- AP
Archaeologists have found underwater evidence of Stone Age settlements off the coast of northeastern England, researchers said Friday.
A team from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne said it had accidentally found stone tools and arrowheads in the North Sea while diving to prepare for future excavations.
The archaeologists said the area where they found the artifacts had originally been dry land but had later become submerged.
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