A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
YUSU Welfare officer Bob Hughes has warned students to be vigilant after a student loans phishing scam has been revealed.
Her Majesty the Queen will be visiting York on Maundy Thursday, 5th April, as part of the 800th anniversary of York’s Charter for the traditional “Royal Maundy” ceremony.
A flood caused by a heating system “failure” forced the university IT services to shut down many essential systems on Sunday night, causing problems for many students on the eve of their exams and assignment due-dates.
The excavations at Star Carr near Pickering have already led to the discovery of Britain’s oldest house, which dates back to 9,000 BC.
The new funding is to develop a detailed approach to understanding how hunter-gathers adapted to climatic and environmental changes between 10,000 and 8,000 BC. When the site was in use Britain was still connected to Europe and the area of the North Sea off Yorkshire was land. Last month the sire was designated as a Scheduled monument in recognition of its rarity and importance.
The house stood close to the shores of a now vanished lake near Scarborough, and has been compared in terms of significance to Stonehenge. The site is from the Mesolithic era, the middle stone age, when hunter-gatherers lived in Britain after the end of the last ice age. It was one of numerous sites around Lake Flixton, and the waterlogged site allowed for a far larger amount of preserved material than is usual for archaeological sites.
The team led by Dr Nicky Milner will use new techniques to combine records of prehistoric climate and environment with the archaeological record. The funding will provide for three years of fieldwork for 20 specialists and two years of analysis of findings.
Dr Milner said: “We know little about the lives of our ancestors who lived during the Preboreal – the postglacial period followed rapid climate change c. 9600 BC - the last major global warming event on earth. For more than a millennium, Northern Europe had been held in the grip of tundra-like conditions, but within a matter of decades temperatures soared by as much as 10oC, resulting in the generation of birch woodland.
“The hunter-gatherers who lived during this postglacial period have been characterised as highly mobile, dispersed and living in small groups, and there is much debate as to how they adapted to global warming.
“Recent discoveries at the Early Mesolithic site of Star Carr, which lies on the shore of palaeo-Lake Flixton, offer a new picture; one in which hunter-gatherers move into a new territory but then settle down and invest time and effort into building huts and large scale wooden structures with evidence for occupation that spans hundreds of years.”
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