The discovery of a Neolithic era settlement is helping shed new light on how people lived on the shores of Lough Foyle some 5,000 years ago.
The 5,000 year-old homes were much bigger than the average house of today.
It was when people took up agriculture as a way of life and moved away from being nomadic hunter-gatherers.The dig uncovered evidence of foundations that may have supported oak planks "The soil is good there and they are in a substantial place, with Lough Foyle as a resource, it would have been a beautifully wooded area back in the Neolithic.The tools and utensils found are also evidence of the advances being made in the Neolithic period on the island of Ireland, she said.
It is not the first time evidence of Neolithic period settlement has been uncovered on the banks of the Foyle.
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