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c. 9000 BC · Star Carr, North Yorkshire, England · Europe · Culture

Deer-skull headdresses and Britain's oldest house

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About 11,000 years ago, when Britain was still joined to the Continent, hunters lived on a lakeshore in Yorkshire. The peat preserved 21 red-deer skull caps with antlers, possibly worn as ritual headdresses, nearly 200 antler harpoon points and the remains of Britain's oldest known building.

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