Clacton Gravels, Swanscombe, South Newington Commons, Warren Hill, East Anglia
A number of British sites, mostly located in the southeastern part of the country, yielded evidence from this period. Numerous hunting camps have been discovered.
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HAND
AXE
Acheulian, ca. 450,000 BP Clacton Gravels, Clacton-on-Sea, England LMA 4.2.12 This site was apparently a hunting or trapping camp. In addition to numerous deer, bison, elephant, horse and rhinoceros remains, the site contained a large number of chopping tools, including the pear-shaped hand-axe depicted below. The oldest object in the Logan Collections, it is estimated to be 450,000 years old. As such, it pre-dates even Homo sapiens sapiens, our own species, the tool having instead been fashioned by an early hominid, Homo erectus. |
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SCRAPER
Acheulian, ca. 400,000 BP Swanscombe, Kent, England LMA 4.8.18 |
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HAND
AXE
Acheulian, ca. 400,000 BP Warren Hill, Suffolk, England LMA 4.2.1 |
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HAND
AXE
Acheulian, ca. 400,000 BP East Anglia, England LMA 4.2.18 |
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TRIANGULAR
HAND
AXE
Acheulian, ca. 400,000 BP South Newington Commons, Kent, England LMA 4.2.5 |
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