Article: A dental clue to life in Britain 500,000 years ago

DAVID KEYS

Archaeology Correspondent

Boxgrove, the gravel pit in West Sussex that has just produced Britain's oldest human fossil, is fast becoming the nation's most important archaeological site.

The excavations are unearthing a perfectly preserved human landscape unaltered and hidden for 500,000 years.

The half-million-year-old human tooth - the discovery of which was announced yesterday - was found surrounded by animal bones, lumps of chalk and the waste products of flint tool manufacture.

The site is shedding rare light on how Britain's first inhabitants lived. Archaeologists funded by English Heritage have also discovered the world's oldest bone and antler tools and what may be the ...

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