The First Britons
The Ancients
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The Origins of Homo Sapiens
The story of the first Britons is an incredibly long several not millennia but several hundreds of thousands of years isn't it? It's a story of climates and it's also a story of different human species coming to these shores too. For the earliest evidence we go to East Anglia to Norfolk where sediments are being exposed by coastal erosion. We have their stone tools, we have evidence of butchery of cut marks on bones and we're even lucky enough to find some footprints of the people that were there about 900,000 years ago.
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