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A brief visualisation of an exotic stone found at a 15,000-year-old hunter-gatherer settlement in Jersey. The site, Les Varines, offers great views over landscapes now drowned by the English Channel. It is located in the Jersey parish of St Saviour and has produced over 5,000 scattered stone artefacts during the past five years of excavation, but in the summer of 2015 the team unearthed denser concentrations of tools and burnt bone and, for the first time, fragments of engraved stone. These are currently under study in an attempt to unravel the significance of these unique finds.

Ice Age Engraved Stones, Tools Unearthed At Jersey Hunter-Gatherer Site Dated To Magdalenian Culture

AncientPages.com | November 3, 2015

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists find Ice Age engravings, tools and burnt bone within "very rare" British settlement at Jersey. Archaeologists say hunter-gatherers from the Magdalenian culture of between 16,000 and