The First Britons
The Ancients
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Neanderthals in Sashan Environment
We've got a wonderful site in Norfolk called Linford where there are a number of small hand axes the type that we find with Neanderthals elsewhere in Europe and Britain. So people back 60,000 years ago they may well have been back earlier but we can't date any of those earlier occupations very precisely. At times the sea level sank 125 meters globally so Britain was then firmly joined to the rest of Europe because the sea level fell completely. Australia and New Guinea joined together you had of course North America and I usually joined together by land bridges.
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