The refitting of lithic artifacts from Area 𝒬2/D, Boxgrove has established that the artifact concentrations were not merely the result of natural disturbances, but surviving evidence related to ...

Matt Pope works for the UCL Institute of Archaeology and on grant-funded research support by bodies including Historic England and the AHRC. He is a member of the Chartered Institute for ...

Potential human ancestor Homo heidelbergensis used this 480,000-year-old bone hammer to create flint tools. UCL Institute of Archaeology Some 480,000 years ago, a group of 30 to 40 early hominins met ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The morphological variability of large cutting tools (LCT) during the Middle Pleistocene has been traditionally associated with two main ...

One day approximately 500,000 years ago, a group of hominids abandoned an encampment at Boxgrove in West Sussex, England. They'd occupied the site for a brief span of several decades, during which ...

Piecing together the story of human evolution is an undeniably complex task. However, new research has brought us closer to understanding how early humans in Britain may have been related to other ...

Archaeologists have reconstructed a day in the life of a community of prehistoric people who lived on England's south coast half a million years ago. It's the first time anywhere in the world that ...

Evidence from a quarry in southern England is shedding extraordinary new light on the evolution of human intelligence. Arguably, the most important driving force that enabled early humans to evolve ...

Sherlock Holmes appreciated the importance of stabbing dead animals with spears in the name of science. The fictional detective once told Watson over breakfast while brandishing a ferocious weapon: ...

Boxgrove Primary School in Guildford was evacuated on Wednesday morning following a "suspicious call". It was one of a number across the country to be evacuated. Surrey Police attended Boxgrove ...

Boxgrove in Sussex, England, is an iconic, old stone age site. This is where the oldest human remains in Britain have been discovered – fossils of Homo heidelbergensis. Part of an exceptionally ...