Jammer Wrote:
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> They now estimate ancient man immigrated into the
> British Isles at least a half dozen times during
> the interglacials, only to be cut off &
> destroyed by the next glacier..
>
> I am unsure why, with ice core evidence of glacial
> advance & retreat many times over the last
> 200,000 years we would ever have assumed they came
> "just once".
>
> As for the lack of fossile evidence an Ice sheet 2
> miles deep tends to destroy much of that. Great
> Britain has something like THREE precious ancient
> human fossiles.
>
But Britain has quite a bit of very old lithic evidence. Boxgrove itself, for instance, 500 000 years old, has lots of lithic evidence and three ancient human fossils. But there are more than 3, as there are 3 bits of skull found at Swanscombe dating to about 350 000 years ago along with about 100 000 hand axes.

There's a cave in Somerset with artefacts about twice as old as Boxgrove. There's an East Anglian site that might be older than that.

There are quiter a few more sites with artefacts over 40 000 years old. I've been in a quarry not far from here and held a 300 000 year old stone axe.

And this is a very small country, we are talking about an area smaller than Florida, certainly.





Doug Weller

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