ANCIENT HUMANS: Britain's Earliest People Lived On Canterbury Outskirts Up To 620,000 Years Ago, New Study Says

Artist reconstruction of Homo heidelbergensis making a flint hand axe. Note: Licensed photo. ( Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Illustration by Gabriel Ugueto/Newsflash) Artist reconstruction of Homo heidelbergensis making a flint hand axe. Note: Licensed photo. ( Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Illustration by Gabriel Ugueto/Newsflash)
Copyrights: Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Illustration by Gabriel Ugueto/Newsflash

23 June 2022
Some of Britain's earliest humans lived on the outskirts of Canterbury in Kent between 560,000 and 620,000 years ago, a groundbreaking new study has revealed. The study, which was led by archaeologists at the University of Cambridge, confirms that Homo heidelbergensis, an ancestor of...