The First Britons
The Ancients
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There was as far as we know for a long period of time there were no people in Britain and they were surviving in Europe. Then when people come back we find evidence of two different stone tool industries in Britain. At Swanscombe at the site you've got first of all Claptonian occupation at the beginning of that warm stage then maybe 20,000 years later you've got the hand axe makers. A skull so called it's probably a female individual has been found which suggests she may have been an early Neanderthal like the Seema people who are just a little bit older than her in Spain. This is a great example of the sorts of evidence you have available but as you say
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