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How We Found Europe’s Oldest Bone Tools, and What We Learned About Their Makers – Gizmodo Australia
Boxgrove in Sussex, England, is an iconic, old stone age site. This is where the oldest human remains in Britain have been discovered – fossils of Homo heidelbergensis. Part of an exceptionally preserved 26km-wide ancient landscape of stone, it provides a vir…
Boxgrove in Sussex, England, is an iconic, old stone age site. This is where the oldest human remains in Britain have been discovered fossils of Homo heidelbergensis. Part of an exceptionally preserved 26km-wide ancient landscape of stone, it provides a virtually untouched record of early humans almost half a million years ago.
The most perfectly preserved area of the site is known as the Horse Butchery Site, a spot where a large horse was slaughtered and processed some 480,000 years ago. Since…
