HUMANS may have colonised northern Europe 200,000 years earlier than previously thought. Stone tools found in eastern England suggest that humans were there at least 700,000 years ago.
“We don’t know for sure what species it was,” says team member Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, “but my bet is it’s an early form of Homo heidelbergensis or Homo antecessor.”
H. heidelbergensis is known to have been present in central Europe about 500,000 years ago. Bones were first discovered in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany, and have since been found in France and Greece.…
