8,000-year-old wooden platform at world's first boatyard shows stone age Britons were master carpenters
The world's oldest boatyard, complete with a wooden platform and tools, has been discovered off the coast of the Isle of Wight, showing Mesolithic man was advanced carpenter. Archaeologists first suspected a stone age site existed near Yarmouth in the 1990s after fishermen reported dredging up …
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