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Timeline
The Mesolithic
Acton Trussell - The Stone Age
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A team of archaeologists came to Acton Trussell to investigate accounts of a shifted village said to have been located around the church of St. James which stands on rising ground about a mile from the centre of the present village.
Research failed to support the 'shifted village' story however what emerged was a evidence of human activity stretching back in time more than eight thousand years.
About twelve thousand years ago the last great ice age came gradually to an end. As the climate became warmer the glaciers retreated life returned to the land, first the lichens and mosses, followed by the grasses, ferns, shrubs and trees and the animals that that fed upon them including deer, wild pig and oxen, finally humans returned.
The people who repopulated the land were hunter gathers, nomads who lived together in small family groups moving across the landscape as the seasons demanded following the herds, foraging for berries, edible roots , collecting shellfish or spearing fish.
The hunter gatherer culture was entirely organic, clothing, shelter, weapons and tools created from wood or animal hide and bone all perishable and so little remains for the archaeologist to uncover in the twenty first century. What did survive however were the tools they crafted from flint
We know that during the Mesolithic period hunter gatherer people were active in the area of what is now the modern village of Acton Trussell from the evidence of flint blades and flakes uncovered during excavations at St. James church.
Flint tools Mesolithic - Acton Trussell
Neolithic Stone Axe- Donated to Stoke Museum