06 Wednesday Jun 2018
Posted in Archaeology
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archaeology, Britain, excavation, news, prehistory, stone age, Yorkshire
This is very exciting. It’s not often we get large excavation monographs devoted to single mesolithic sites in the UK (Three Ways Wharf stands out, a site that was published in 2011 and excavated in the 1980s), but recently within the space of a few weeks we got two: Blick Mead in mid March (photo […]
via A close look at Blick Mead and Star Carr — Mike Pitts – Digging Deeper
24 Friday Feb 2017
Posted in Archaeology, Education, WEA
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archaeology, education, ice age, Leicestershire, Loughborough, prehistory, Star Carr, stone age, WEA, Yorkshire
In yesterday’s session of ‘From the Ice Age to the Stone Age’ we discussed the Mesolithic in Britain and, in particular, the famous site of Star Carr in Yorkshire. The website linked here provides a number of photographs of the site and video clips discussing aspects of the excavation and the artefacts found.
In addition, this short video clip discusses the use and manufacture of frontlets or headdresses found at Star Carr and other Mesolithic sites through experimental archaeology:
This final video by Archaeosoup Productions provides a nice overview of the site:
