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Homo Britannicus: The incredible story of human life in Britain by Chris Stringer (Allen Lane, 2006) £25
Homo Britannicus tells the epic history of life in Britain, from the very first human footsteps to the present day. Drawing on all the latest evidence and techniques of investigation, Chris Stringer describes times when Britain was so tropical that people lived alongside hippos and sabre tooth tigers, times so cold we shared this land with reindeer and mammoths, and times colder still when we were forced to flee altogether.

This is the first time we have known the full extent of this history. The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project, led by Chris, who featured in the Time Team Special, Britain's drowned world, has made discoveries that have stunned the world, pushing back the earliest date of arrival to 700,000 years ago. Our ancestors have been fighting a dramatic battle for survival here ever since.
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Earliest Record of Human Activity in Northern Europe by Simon Parfitt et al (Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project, 2006)
Available online at
www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/ahob/
AHOBI/Parfitt_et_al_2005.pdf
Early humans were living in Britain as much as 700,000 years ago, according to the research documented here. A collection of stone tools discovered by AHOB researchers in East Anglia showed that human activity was present in northern Europe 200,000 years earlier than scientists thought. This work changed our understanding of how humans moved from southern Europe to colonise areas of northern Europe – including the UK. This is the full paper of the research, first published as an article in Nature 438 (15 December 2005).

700,000 Years Old: Found in Suffolk by Chris Stringer et al (British Archaeology 86, January-February 2006)
Available online at
www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba86/feat1.shtml
A series of articles by Chris Stringer, Simon Parfitt and others involved in the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project discuss the finds that have transformed our thinking about early human activity in northern Europe.

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