Lost cities / archaeology / ancient history

And this, an interesting re-examination of human remains excavated in the Cotswolds in the 1980s:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/dec/22/worlds-oldest-family-tree-costwolds-tomb-hazleton-north-long-cairn-dna

The paper about the original excavations, linked to from the article, is fascinating, containing copious drawings and photographs, and well worth having a look at (but I haven't read it all, either):

https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-1416-1/dissemination/pdf/9781848021617.pdf

However, as usual, I don't think that it's possible to date things like this so precisely (from the article):

The prehistoric group of people in question lived around 3700–3600BC and were some of Britain’s first farmers, with the tomb constructed about 100 years after cattle and cereal cultivation had been introduced from continental Europe. It would be another 700 years before construction started on the most famous neolithic legacy, Stonehenge.

I doubt very much there's enough evidence to firmly nail down when such significant changes as these kinds of farming came to Britain. I rather suspect that there are simply no earlier finds pointing to them having been practised earlier yet.

It's comforting to see the old Grauniad continuing to mis-spell URLs. :)