The First Britons
The Ancients
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Is Box Growth a Paleolithic Axe Factory?
The story of box growth is such a great story isn't it nearby modern day chichester the city of my birth incredible place. At the time some 500,000 years ago it's a slightly cooler climate than the time of haysborough 400,000 years before that so in regards to fire and warmth do we have any evidence from box growth that they were controlling fire at this time? There could have been a stage when people were able to capture natural fires but unfortunately for box growth at 480,000 or so we don't have that evidence. Box growth seems to be in this important centre almost a manufacturing centre is this a paleolithic axe factory in one sense? Well yes it was
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