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The First Britons

The Ancients

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Jersey Is a Fascinating Place

Jersey has extensive occupation from this cold stage around 150 to 200,000 years ago there are huge piles of mammoth and woolly rhino bones in a site lokotter some brelad. Homo sapiens occupations with the orognassian and then they succeeding stone tool industries which we call the gravetian and the salutrion and the magnolenian. We see major changes through here we get the appearance of representational art of course in Europe but also evidence of cannibalism at sites like goth's cave in cheddar in Somerset.

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