The First Britons
The Ancients
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Climate Change in the Last 1 Million Years
About every 100,000 years there's a major switch of climate from warm like the present day to extremely cold. This is something we see over the last 1 million years because there's been this cycle of ice ages. So that runs on about a 100,000 year cycle and that's really the dominant cycle in the last 700,000 years. And when we look at Haysbury 900,000 years ago or thereabouts we can't place it precisely. There are two warm stages relatively warm stages either side of 900,00 years. We think the Haysbury human occupation lies in one of those but it wasn't as warm as today.
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