<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b08c0f4e-5707-4daf-a274-d5734b4427f2/E421F0EB-402B-4B59-A8A5-C4464DD04A39/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1206248/9-000-year-old-house-Isle-Man-reveals-hunter-gatherers-lived-ice-age.html?ITO=1490" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1206248/9-000-year-old-house-Isle-Man-reveals-hunter-gatherers-lived-ice-age.html?ITO=1490" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailymail.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1206248/9-000-year-old-house-Isle-Man-reveals-hunter-gatherers-lived-ice-age.html?ITO=1490"><P>Built 3,000 years before the miracle of Stonehenge, this is Britain's oldest and best preserved house.</P><P>The remains of the strongly built shelter, discovered on the Isle of Man, provide a rare window into the domestic life of hunter-gatherers 9,000 years ago.</P><P>Unearthed by accident during extension work to the island's airport runway, the 23ft wide pit is giving up extraordinary archaeological secrets.</P><P>Most exciting is the revelation that the people of the mesolithic age, long regarded as nomads who wandered ancient Britain in search of food, were actually very good at settling down.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1206248/9-000-year-old-house-Isle-Man-reveals-hunter-gatherers-lived-ice-age.html?ITO=1490"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/85A20A93-6937-474E-A982-54A2E2425242" alt="hunter-gatherer house" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1206248/9-000-year-old-house-Isle-Man-reveals-hunter-gatherers-lived-ice-age.html?ITO=1490"><P>A ring of postholes around the edge of the pit, along with carbonised timbers, suggests the building's supports were about six inches thick and far from a makeshift shelter.<BR /></P><P> Manx National Heritage field archaeologist Andrew Johnson confirmed the building showed that people from this time were settled for long periods.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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