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Archaeology in Warwickshire

The New Stone Age

Picture of Rollright Stones

Around 6,000 years ago the hunter-gatherer way of life was replaced by a simple farming economy, thus further modifying their habitat.

These New Stone Age people raised sheep, pigs and cattle, and grew cereal crops. They used fire and stone axes to make clearings in the woodland where they could build farms and lay out fields.