The First Britons
The Ancients
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Homo Antisessal Pioneer Man
The footprints are fairly close in size to our own. It looks like a mixed group of people, adults and children apparently walking alongside this river estuary which incredibly was the river Thames at that time. So these were hunted together they're living off the land. There are plenty of mammals around at the time including giant beaver much bigger than the present species so-called giant beaver. A weird sort of elk with really huge ornate antlers you've got primitive hyenas You've got mammoths which at that time were not the woolly mammoths that we know much later on. These were distant ancestors of those mammoths 900,000 years ago.
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