Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in BritainHOMO BRITANNICUS tells the epic history of life in Britain, from man s very first 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 man lived alongside hippos and sabre tooth tiger, times so cold we shared this land with reindeer and mammoth, 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, 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. |
Contents
CHAPTER ONE The First Britons | 35 |
CHAPTER TWO Understanding Ice Ages | 53 |
CHAPTER THREE The Great Interglacial | 68 |
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Africa AHOB project Anglian animal bones archaeology artefacts assemblage associated Atapuerca beetles Benoît Audureau Boxgrove Britain British Buckland Bytham Bytham River carbon Channel Cheddar Clactonian climate change cold stage Creswellian Cro-Magnons cut marks dating deposits early humans Earth East Anglia elephant environment Europe European excavations extinct finds flakes flint fossils geological glacial global warming Gough's Cave gravels handaxes Happisburgh hippos Homo horse Hoxne Hoxnian Hoxnian interglacial human bones human evolution human fossils human occupation hyaena Ice Age ice caps interglacial isotope Kent's Cavern lake landscape lived London looked Lynford mammals mammoth Mauer metres Middle Palaeolithic million years ago modern humans Natural History Museum Neanderthals Pakefield Paviland perhaps period Piltdown Pleistocene Pontnewydd Prepared Core Purfleet quarry Quaternary record reindeer remains rhino river sea level sediments skeleton skull species stone tools Stringer suggests Swanscombe teeth temperatures Thames vole warm stage