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Article: A dental clue to life in Britain 500,000 years ago
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 8, 1995
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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 ...