Course Type: Just for Fun
Join us in an exciting journey of discovery as we venture back into the Isle of Man’s prehistory to meet the hunters and gatherers of the Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) Period. Dating to some 10,000 years ago, these people represent the first inhabitants of an era when our Island became physically detached from the wider British Isles land mass, effectively becoming the Island home we know today. The presence of these people is known exclusively through the archaeological record – what they left behind in terms of the manufacture of weaponry and tools and deposited food products. Several locally excavated sites will be considered, and how these might be better understood within a framework of other sites within the British Isles. Importantly, too, hunter gatherer activities must also be regarded as a response to changing climatic conditions and associated environmental responses.
