They dragged weighted nets across the seafloor and hoisted them up full of sole, plaice, and other bottom fish. But sometimes ... lived during the Mesolithic period, which in northern Europe ...

The Mesolithic period is known as the middle stone ... Britain was home to most of the species of birds, fish and shellfish we have today, so people had a wide range of food to eat.

As they brought up their fishing nets ... strange marks that suggest the Mesolithic people of the region performed rituals on their dead. As the last Ice Age came to an end around 11,000 years ...