Caveman campsite unearthed in London!

• 6th Jun 2014

These days it's well known for its power station but London's Battersea neighbourhood may have once been a caveman campsite, archaeologists believe.

The construction site of the new U.S. Embassy, with its futuristic cube design costing an estimated £650 million, harks back to London's distant past and gives camping enthusiasts a glimpse of a simpler time. 

Traces of prehistoric camping in London have been uncovered on the site, including Stone Age tools, the ancient remains of campfires, animal bones and a possible fish trap, reports livescience.com.

The surface uncovered at the construction site is up to 11,750 years old, carbon dating showed. As the London area was likely too wet for permanent settling, the vast open space may have been a good spot for cavemen to set up camp.

Kasia Olchowska, a senior archaeologist at the Museum of London Archaeology, says that several patches of scorched ground and burned animal bones may be evidence of campfires.

"We think that [the fires] are potentially marking a spot that people were coming back to seasonally," Olchowska told nbcnews.com.

Camping equipment may have improved dramatically, but with the revival we're enjoying right now it would appear our attitude towards camping hasn't changed too much over the years.