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Ancient Britain in its European Context (AHOB 2)"The second phase of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project (AHOB) is funded to run until 2010, thanks to a grant by the Leverhulme Trust. The project, which started in October 2001, has made groundbreaking discoveries dating human occupation of Britain back as far as 700,000 years. Phase two of the AHOB project (AHOB2) will continue to add data on the earliest human colonisations of Britain, but the project will also carry out more comparative studies in continental Europe. The first year of the AHOB2 project will include an attempt to recover DNA from a fragment of jawbone found at Kent's Cavern in Devon. This will help determine whether it is a modern human as previously believed, or a late Neanderthal. With a newly estimated date of 35,000, this fossil lies right at the time when modern humans could have first encountered the Neanderthals in western Europe." More at - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/ahob/index_2.html and info on phase 1 of the AHOB project at - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/ahob/AHOBI/index_2.html |
Posted by Littlestone23rd November 2006ce |
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