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London Natural History Museum submitted by dodomad : Specially commissioned Neanderthal and Homo sapiens models (above) that are the most life-like and scientifically accurate ever made feature in the exhibition Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story, 13 February to 28 September 2014 Image copyright: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Colonising Britain – One million years of our human story by Andy B on Tuesday, 11 February 2014
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When did the first people arrive in what is now Britain? Ongoing research into an extraordinary concentration of Palaeolithic sites on the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk has uncovered evidence of human activity dating back about 900,000 years – almost twice as long as previously thought. Now the subject of a major exhibition at London’s Natural History Museum, these findings bring the successive waves of prehistoric pioneers that populated these shores into unprecedented focus, as Chris Stringer told Karolyn Shindler.

http://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/colonising-britain-one-million-years-of-our-human-story.htm
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    Re: Colonising Britain – One million years of our human story by Andy B on Tuesday, 11 February 2014
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    Archaeologists have found the earliest human footprints known outside Africa, at Happisburgh on the Norfolk coast. Dating back 800,000 years, the prints are thought to have been made by five individuals, including both adults and children.

    They were identified by a team of scientists led by the British Museum, Natural History Museum, and Queen Mary University of London, after heavy seas removed beach sands to reveal a series of hollows in the silt at low tide.

    Analysis of digital images of these hollows confirmed that they were ancient human footprints, direct evidence of the earliest known humans in northern Europe. In some cases the prints were so clear that the heel, arch, and even toes could be identified.

    ‘At first we weren’t sure what we were seeing, but as we sponged off the seawater, it was clear that the hollows resembled prints, perhaps human footprints, and that we needed to record the surface as quickly as possible before the sea eroded it away.’

    The age of the site is based on examination of glacial deposits overlying the finds, which contain extinct animals and environmental evidence dating back more than 800,000 years. The footprints come from the same deposits.

    http://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/news/earliest-human-footprints-outside-africa-found-in-norfolk.htm
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    Re: Colonising Britain – One million years of our human story by bat400 on Friday, 25 July 2014
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    And another similar link sent by coldrum from http://www.culture24.org.uk
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      Re: Colonising Britain – One million years of our human story by sem on Friday, 25 July 2014
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      It's nice to see a link to MegP here under Sites We Like, right next to a picture of "the startlingly convincing Neanderthal in the classic pose of an earnest museum-goer – hands clasped behind his back, head tilted a little to one side, a gentle smile..."
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One Million Years of the Human Story (AHOB) runs from 13th Feb to 28th Sept 2014 by Andy B on Monday, 03 February 2014
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The Swanscombe skull, from the earliest known Neanderthal in Britain, and the Clacton spear, the oldest wooden spear in the world, are just some of the incredible objects from Britain’s past that will go on show for the first time in Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story – opening 13 February 2014.

Remarkable finds from sites such as Kents Cavern in Devon, Pontnewydd in North Wales and Happisburgh in Norfolk will take you back nearly one million years to uncover what life was really like for our ancient relatives.

Drawing on 12 years’ of research by an extended network of scientists, led by the Natural History Museum, this new exhibition tells the enchanting story of the changing faces and spaces of prehistoric Britain. The latest scientific techniques and life-size models bring rarely seen specimens to life so you can look back, long before the Romans, Saxons and Vikings, to piece together how humans came and went in Britain over the last million years.

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    Re: One Million Years of the Human Story (AHOB) runs from 13th Feb to 28th Sept 2014 by Andy B on Monday, 03 February 2014
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    Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story, 13 February to 28 September 2014

    See Britons as you have never seen them before and explore how we have come and gone from this land over the ages. Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story traces the changing faces and landscapes of this country, drawing on more than 10 years of research by a large network of scientists, led by the Natural History Museum.

    From hippos that swam in the Thames and the earliest Neanderthals in Europe, to intriguing ancient evidence of cannibalism, this exhibition brings together rare fossil specimens and artefacts to give the most complete picture of our past so far.

    Highlights include:

    * Specially commissioned Neanderthal and Homo sapiens models that are the most life-like and scientifically accurate ever made.
    * Stone tools from Happisburgh in Norfolk that show us ancient humans arrived in Britain around 900,000 years ago – 400,000 years earlier than first thought.
    * A 400,000...

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    Re: One Million Years of the Human Story (AHOB) runs from 13th Feb to 28th Sept 2014 by Andy B on Monday, 03 February 2014
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    See also:

    http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/human-origins/human-occupation-britain/

    http://www.ahobproject.org/
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Discovery of a horse engraving from Bruniquel, France by bat400 on Sunday, 27 October 2013
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There are many examples of Palaeolithic portable engravings that have been discovered, long after their excavation, among the collections stored in museums.
It is far rarer, however, for a new engraving to be found among faunal material curated within a palaeontological collection.



In the article publish in Antiquity 285 (2011) the researchers (Laura M. Kaagan, Paul G. Bahn & Adrian M. Lister) report on the discovery of a horse engraving in the collection of the Palaeontology Department of the Natural History Museum (NHM), London, some 140 years after the excavation and acquisition of the specimen.

The new engraving was found among the horse remains from the Late Magdalenian site of Roc du Courbet, Bruniquel, France.



Thanks to coldrum for the link. Source: http://www.pasthorizonspr.com
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Science Uncovered festival, 27 September 2013 at the NHM and all over Europe by Andy B on Tuesday, 24 September 2013
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Choose from hundreds of exciting free activities at our Science Uncovered festival on 27 September 2013. We are joined by 400 scientists on the night.



For details of all Science Stations, talks, tours, activities and shows, download a map PDF (1.4 MB).
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources-rx/files/su2013_sk_map-123359.pdf

Tickets for certain events will be available on the night. Get more event details below.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/after-hours/science-uncovered/whats-on/index.html

some examples:

Meet the Ancestors
Join a whistle-stop tour of human evolution. From our earliest ancestors who lived 6 million years ago to the Neanderthals and the dawn of Homo sapiens, track the journey of our species out of Africa and discuss our place in evolution.
Our Place in Evolution gallery
Meet: Darwin's statue, Central Hall stairs
18.15, 19.00, 20.30, 21.15
Each tour lasts 25 minutes and has space for 15 people

Science Stations – get up close and personal...

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    new 3D map of an ancient human burial site by Andy B on Wednesday, 25 September 2013
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    I was scratching my head as to what the "new 3D map of an ancient human burial site" is referring to but I think the answer is in the news item posted just below - New Life for Nubian Bones
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      Re: new 3D map of an ancient human burial site by bat400 on Wednesday, 25 September 2013
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      What "new 3D map"?
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      Re: new 3D map of an ancient human burial site by golux on Thursday, 26 September 2013
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      The "3D map of human remains" currently making the headlines is one made by archaeologists using an aerial drone to photograph a site in Peru - see here.
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        Re: new 3D map of an ancient human burial site by Andy B on Thursday, 26 September 2013
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        Are you sure Golux? - I can't see any reference to the NHM being involved in that - or anyone from the UK? I assumed they were making a 3d map of where all the Nubian bones from the article below were deposited, but I could be wrong as that is a pure guess!
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        Re: new 3D map of an ancient human burial site by golux on Friday, 27 September 2013
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        Yes I am sure what I said is correct.

        I couldn't find any details of a "3D map of human remains" anywhere on the NHM website. If the investigation of Nubian bones had produced such a map then I would expect the media to be making a song and dance about it, as they have regarding the Peruvian map I referred to. The NHM are not shy about gaining publicity and would surely have leaped onto this bandwagon if they had a 3d map of their own to show off. Failing that, maybe they are displaying a copy of the Peruvian map to demonstrate what is happening at the cutting edge of archaeology, and to pull in the punters?
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New Life for Nubian Bones - 2012 workshop by bat400 on Monday, 23 September 2013
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A two and a half year transatlantic search by researchers at The University of Manchester for the remains of thousands of Nubian skeletons will culminate in a fascinating workshop.

The project has been led by Professor Rosalie David (University of Manchester) and Professor Norman MacLeod (Natural History Museum.) Since 2010 they and a team of researchers, have been identifying the whereabouts of the remains of bodies collected on the first archaeological survey of Nubia more than one hundred years ago.

7,500 skeletons and mummies dating back to between 4,000BC and 1,000AD were excavated during the dig which took place in Southern Egypt from 1907 to 1911. It was a race against time for the American archaeologist, George Reisner, and his team who were battling the rising waters building up behind the newly completed Aswan Low Dam.

The fact the area was flooded by the end of the excavation demonstrates the historical importance of what they found and the significance of the Nubian...

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Lost and found, the first find of an early human artwork by bat400 on Sunday, 15 September 2013
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A 14,000-year-old engraved reindeer antler is possibly the first piece of early human art ever found. The specimen was uncovered in the 1800s and has been in the vast collections of the Natural History Museum. Its scientific importance, and clues as to how it was made are only now being revealed, scientists report today.

Natural History Museum scientists have pieced together the antler's history. It was found between 1830 and 1848 in Neschers, France, by local village priest Jean-Baptiste Croizet. There are no known records of early human artwork finds before this time and so it is the first, or one of the first, discoveries of Stone Age portable art.

The engraving shows part of a figure of a horse, and was made by stone age people (modern humans) towards the end of the last ice age. Although these people were hunter-gatherers, living before agriculture and domestication of animals had begun, they were nevertheless skilled technicians and artists.

In the 1800s very little was...

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Neanderthals: how needles and skins gave us the edge on our kissing cousins. by bat400 on Monday, 17 January 2011
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The Neanderthal genome tells us we were very similar: in fact we interbred. But intellect and invention meant that we lived while they perished, says Robin McKie, of The Guardian.

On the ground floor of the Natural History Museum in London, arrays of Formica-covered cabinets stretch from floor to ceiling and from one end of the great building to the other. Some of nature's finest glories are stored here: pygmy hippo bones from Sicily, mammoth tusks from Siberia and skulls of giant sloths from South America.

Many treasures compete for attention, but there is one sample, kept in a small plywood box, that deserves especial interest: the Swanscombe skull. Found near Gravesend last century, it is made up of three pieces of the brain case of a 400,000-year-old female and is one of only half-a-dozen bits of skeleton that can be traced to men and women who lived in Britain before the end of the last ice age. Human remains do not get more precious than this.

However, the Swanscombe find is...

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Axe that clove creationism found at museum after 150 years by coldrum on Friday, 19 June 2009
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Axe that clove creationism found at museum after 150 years

A lump of flint that challenged creationist history and was dubbed by an eminent archaeologist "the stone that shattered the time barrier" has been tracked down after 150 years in the vast stores of the Natural History Museum in London.

On 26 May 1859, six months before Charles Darwin shattered the biblical creation story when he finally plucked up the courage to publish his theory of natural selection, the stone hand axe from the bottom of a French quarry was presented to the world at a lecture at the Royal Society in London.

Neither John Evans nor Joseph Prestwich, the businessmen and amateur archaeologist and geologist who found it, nor their distinguished audience, could guess its true age, around 400,000 years. But they did know it came from "a very remote period", when the woolly mammoth and rhinos, whose bones were mixed up in the same layer, roamed the plains of northern France.

There was no way the...

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