According to China's state-run Xinhua news agency, the discovered settlement dates back between 3,600 and 4,100 years ago.
Investigations have not yet discovered settlement or agricultural activity around the edge of Lindow Moss that would have been contemporary with Lindow Man; however, analysis of pollen in the peat suggests there was some cultivation in the vicinity.
On the other hand, hidden caches of literature, buried for thousands of years, have been discovered in settlements on the dry desert margins of Egyptian civilization.
Archaeologists in Egypt's western desert have discovered a settlement that dates to the time of the pyramid builders, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday.
There was a time when no archaeologist expected to discover such an elaborate settlement in this relatively resource-poor part of the rain forest.
They are far from pre-Columbian settlements discovered elsewhere in the Amazon.
There are established physical hallmarks, such as the condition of human bones discovered at ancient settlements, which strongly suggest the practice.
Braidwood and his team discovered 178 ancient settlements.
Now, archaeologists have discovered that inland settlements there were even more important early on than most archaeologists had realized.
But in the past decade, scientists have discovered even earlier settlements, revealing that humans made the journey to the Americas as early as about 15,000 years ago.
These Norwegian Vikings also explored across the North Atlantic, discovering and creating settlements in the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Newfoundland and Greenland.
