British archaeologists have announced a sensational find. The village of the Bronze Age, located on stilts, collapsed into the river due to a fire, plunged into silt and safely preserved in its original form to this day.
According to Reuters, the settlement is approximately 1000 BC. was discovered in the Whittlesea area, in central England. It is a small round wooden house that once stood on wooden piles. The fire damaged the piles, the houses fell into the river, where, as a result, they remained at a level of about two meters below the earth's surface. Pots of food and woven clothes have already been found inside the houses, archaeologists say. Scientists also found exotic glass bead necklaces, rare goblets, bowls and jugs.
According to the researchers, the village has been preserved so well that even the prints of the traces of its inhabitants remained. Charred rafters were also found in one of the houses. Scientists speculate that the house was abandoned in a hurry after it caught fire. According to the representative of the Department of Archeology at the University of Cambridge, David Gibson, the find is of undoubted international interest, since earlier researchers found only traces of settlements of the Bronze Age. With the help of 3D technologies, scientists will now be able to completely create the place of residence of the ancient ancestors of the modern inhabitants of the Earth.