Archaeological News

This new talks about the oldest archaeological discovery made in Great Britain, at Norfolk beach. The site’s name is Happisburg. In this place, a group of archaeologist found different stone tools, like knifes and piercing tools. These tools are very fresh, they are very sharp, and so this would suggest that they are not too far for the original site of deposit.

This discovery, open the idea that early humans were in Great Britain between 840.000 and 950.000 years ago, that is 250.000 older than they believe before.

Maybe these artifacts were leaved by hunter-gatherers and they should border the Thames River, which is dry in our era. These stones should be washed away by the river curse, and finally deposited at Happisburg. The rivers were probably used like travel routes, because most part of the landscape were covered by vegetation, and that limits the free pass.

The early Britons would have live in similar climatic conditions to those of today, maybe the winter is cooler, and they live at the same time as “megafauna” did.

This discovery overturns the idea that early humans don’t life in cool systems, and they prefer a hospitable climate in the Mediterraneo, because before this discovery, was in this zone where the oldest archaeological record was discovered, dated between 1,1 and 1,2 millions years ago.

Maybe the first humans in Great Britain came here crossing a natural land bridge, which connect the actual country with continental Europe. They should have come in a interglacial period, with nice climatic conditions, because after that temperatures dropped too much, and they can’t live there. All of these is because they lived out in the open, but we don´t know if they had clothes, primitive buildings or even if they used the fire.

This is an amazing discovery, so we can’t leave the investigation here, we need to know how our antecessors were, and whet the earth was populated.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jul/07/first-humans-britain-stone-tools