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11,000-Year-Old Girl Identified Through DNA Becomes Northern Britain’s Earliest Confirmed Individual
An 11,000-year-old burial uncovered in a small limestone cave in Cumbria has now been identified as a young girl, making her the earliest known individual from northern Britain whose sex and age have been scientifically confirmed through DNA analysis. Discovered at Heaning Wood Bone Cave near Great Urswick, the child—affectionately named the “Ossick Lass”—lived during…