Star Carr is the first early Mesolithic site in Europe from which the full complement of bone, antler, wood and other organic matter has been recovered alongside the flint industry, and stratified into deposits enabling dating by pollen-analysis. Highly successful carbon tests carried out in Chicago confirmed a date some-where in the 8th millennium B.C. Star Carr gives by far the fullest picture yet established, from excavations anywhere in Europe, of a community ...