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Boxgrove

Lower Paleolithic fossil beach in southern Britain with the earliest human remains yet found in Europe (Homo erectus), about 500,000 years old. Acheulian hand-axes and animal remains found in situ on the ancient beach surface provide important information about tool manufacture and butchery practices, with implications for early human cognition.


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