This week, Anna introduces Amber to the site of Boxgrove, in what is now Sussex, England. It's one of the oldest known hominin sites in the UK, and features the remains of our early relative, Homo heidelbergensis. Join us to learn more about the Muddle in the Middle, the world's hardest jigsaw puzzle, and the molecular clock.
Links
The man who died half a million years ago (Current Archaeology)
We may now know what our common ancestor with Neanderthals looked like (New Scientist)
The Middle Pleistocene human tibia from Boxgrove (Science Direct)
Europe’s Oldest Bone Tools Hint at Early Hominin Sophistication (Smithsonian Magazine)
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