Britons landed '200,000 years earlier than first thought'
Submitted by Andy B on Saturday, 22 December 2001 Page Views: 617
DiscoveriesMan could have settled in Britain up to 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to new studies.Prehistorians had thought the predecessors of modern humans began living in Britain between 450,000 and 500,000 years ago.
But recent discoveries in eastern and south western England suggest that is wrong, according to an article in the magazine New Scientist.
Researchers working in conjunction with the Natural History Museum are basing their new theories on analysis of a flint axe and other tools found on the East Anglian coast and investigation of butchery marks on a deer bone found in Somerset.
Experts think that some of these finds were in sediments that could date back 700,000 years.
Museum researchers, who have not revealed the exact locations of the discoveries, are carrying out further checks, adds the article.
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