Bones analysed are evidence of early human activity in Britain after the Ice Age, experts say.
Analysis of material discovered in the cave found some of it was much older than estimated
Bone and a shell bead discovered at Heaning Wood Bone Cave, near Great Urswick, were analysed by the University of Central Lancashire.He described it as evidence of "some of the earliest dates for human activity" in northern Britain after the Ice Age.A periwinkle shell bead was one of the discoveries found to be about 11,000 years old
"The caves have been dug before, in the 1950s, and work by Liverpool John Moores University about 10 years ago dated some of the material to the early Bronze Age [about 4,000 years ago]. "One individual and one piece of shell bead buried with him came back with a date roundabout 11,000 years ago which is astonishingly early for the north.
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