The earliest human remains ever found in northern Britain have been unearthed from a cave in Great Urswick, Cumbria. Local archaeologist Martin Stables recovered human bones and a periwinkle shell ...

An international team led by archaeologists at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has discovered the earliest human remains ever found in northern Britain. Human bone and a periwinkle shell ...

AN ARCHAEOLOGIST from south Cumbria has uncovered some of the earliest human remains ever found in northern Britain. Martin Stables, from Ulverston, has excavated a human bone and a periwinkle shell ...

For the last six years, Martin Stables has spent much of his time digging in a cave. The archaeologist — who lives in a northern region of Britain — has been working on excavations inside Heaning Wood ...

The 'oldest northerner' in England may have finally been found after a landmark dig inside a cave turned up a prehistoric burial site. A team from around the world this week confirmed that human ...

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Working in a cave in Liguria, Italy, an international team of researchers uncovered the oldest documented burial of an infant girl in the European archaeological record. The richly decorated ...

Archaeologists working in a cave in Italy have unearthed a highly decorated, 10,000-year-old burial of an infant girl — the oldest of its kind known from Europe. The hunter–gatherer child, nicknamed ...