At the end of the last great Ice Age, some 12,000 years ago, glacial meltwaters surged through an unspoiled wilderness, forming the flood plain of the River Lea. However, the oldest evidence from the Olympic Park comes from the Neolithic period (4000–2200 B.C.), when people began fairly extensive woodland-clearing for agriculture, aided by flint axes. The team discovered one such ax, dated to between 4000 and 3000 B.C., at the edge of a river channel, but there was no evidence the ax had been
Neolithic Rituals

(Courtesy The Museum of London and Pre-Construct Archaeology)
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