Prehistoric Britain
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Several species of humans have intermittently occupied Great Britain for almost a million years. The earliest evidence of human occupation around 900,000 years ago is at Happisburgh on the Norfolk coa
Early stages of the formation of the English Channel, spanning from Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 25-21 (prior to 900,000 years ago) to the proglacial lake during the Anglian Glaciation (MIS 12 c. 480-430,000 years ago) to the situation during the following Hoxnian interglacial (MIS 11, c. 425-375,000 years ago)
Photos of the ~900,000 year old Happisburgh footprints, taken shortly before their destruction
Display of ovate handaxes from the Boxgrove site, dating to around 480,000 years ago
The Clacton spearhead, found near Clacton-on-sea, is the oldest known wooden weapon, at approximately 400,000 years old.
Boxgrove Man
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Boxgrove Man is a name given to three fossils of early humans, possibly Homo heidelbergensis, found at the Boxgrove site in Sussex, England and dated to about 480,000 years old. The fossils include th
Prehistoric Britain
…stone tools and now destroyed footprints possibly made by Homo antecessor or Homo erectus. The oldest human fossils, around 480,000 years old, are of "Boxgrove Man" (possibly Homo heidelbergensis) from the Boxgrove site in Sussex. Until that time, Britain had been permanently connected to the Continent by a chalk…
Tibia from Boxgrove Man
Alternate view of the tibia