Boxgrove: How we found Europe's oldest bone tools, and what we learned about their makers

Thursday, August 13, 2020 - 08:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

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.

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