10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOXGROVE MAN»
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Boxgrove: A Middle Pleistocene Hominid Site at Eartham ...
A report on the work at some West Sussex quarries which led to the discovery of a thigh-bone from the oldest human ever found in Britain, the 500,000 years old `Boxgrove man'.
Mark Roberts, Simon Parfitt, 1999
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Confronting Scale in Archaeology: Issues of Theory and Practice
Bowen, D.Q., and Sykes, G.A., 1994, How Old is Boxgrove man? Nature 371:751.
Chapman, J., 2000, Fragmentation in Archaeology: People, Places and Broken
Objects in the Prehistory of Southeast Europe. Routledge, London. Harwell, D.E.
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Gary Lock, Brian Molyneaux, 2007
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The Ascent of Media: From Gilgamesh to Google Via Gutenberg
Boxgrove in West Sussex, southern England, has given its name to a very early
ancestor of ours: Boxgrove Man, whose remains were found there in 1994. These
were big, muscular hunters, direct forerunners of modern human beings, who ...
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Local-Moment Ferromagnets: Unique Properties for Modern ...
While some archaeologists were hailing this 'Boxgrove Man' as the 'oldest
European', The Times was clear about its significance: The discovery of the Ice
Man in an alpine glacier has given both Italy and Austria, who lay claim to him, a
sense ...
Markus Donath, Wolfgang Nolting, 2005
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Cultural Identity and Archaeology: The Construction of ...
While some archaeologists were hailing this 'Boxgrove Man' as the 'oldest
European', The Times was clear about its significance: The discovery of the Ice
Man in an alpine glacier has given both Italy and Austria, who lay claim to him, a
sense ...
P. Graves-Brown, C.S. Gamble, Sian Jones, 2013
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Slow South Downs and Sussex Coast: Local, Characterful ...
Boxgrove Man: putting the clock back This part of Sussex doesn't look at all exotic
nowadays, but in the 1990s one of the most remarkable archaeological
excavations of its time, in a nearby gravel quarry, uncovered an extraordinary
snapshot ...
The 500,000-year-old remains of one of these hunters, called Boxgrove Man, are
the oldest in England. Boxgrove Man is named after the gravel pit in the south
where archaeologists found part of his shin bone and two of his teeth.
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History of the British Isles to 1714 Ad
One such was Boxgrove Man, who lived in Sussex half a million years ago. Only
a single tibia has been found, thought to be a bone from an early hominid, Homo
heidelbergensis. Neanderthal man also lived in Britain. His bones have been ...
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The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: Theories and Approaches
... sheet, pig, deer Boxgrove Kill Site Palaeolithic 470,000 BP Michael Pitts and
Mark Roberts (1982- ) • Tibia and 2 teeth - Britain's earliest hominid • Boxgrove
man: Robust, heavily muscled, active, cold adapted', 6 foot tall, and right handed.
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The Fourth Source: Effects of Natural Nuclear Reactors
Roberts, M. B. 1994a. A hominid tibia from Middle Pleistocene sediments at
Boxgrove, UK. Nature 369, 313 (1994). Roberts, M. B. 1994b. How old is '
Boxgrove man'? – Roberts replies. Nature 371, 751 (1994). Roberts, R. G. et al.
2001.
7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOXGROVE MAN»
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Britain's earliest humanity in epic exhibition
Also featured is a 500,000-year-old tibia, once part of an early human dubbed Boxgrove Man, and the world's oldest spear, at 400,000 years ... «New Scientist, Feb 14»
Evolution pushes on as European men grow taller
The long Boxgrove tibia suggests that Boxgrove Man, living half-a-million years ago, was nearly 1.83m (6 ft) tall, and very strongly built. «Natural History Museum, Sep 13»
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The oldest European hominid fossil was unearthed in West Sussex in 1994: the 500,000-year-old remains of “Boxgrove Man” were found next ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 13»
Museum scientists come out of the lab for Science Uncovered
Precious never-before-seen specimens such as the teeth of Boxgrove man, the oldest human remains found in Britain, will be unveiled at one ... «Natural History Museum, Sep 11»
Neil Oliver on history, housewives … and hair
“I was very affected by seeing fragments of bone from Boxgrove Man. It is basically two parts of a shin bone and a couple of teeth which are half ... «Herald Scotland, Sep 11»
Flint found during High School dig is evidence that humans roamed …
Experts believe it was used by a human species called Boxgrove Man, and is possibly the second-oldest find of its kind in the country. «Essex Echo, Jun 10»
Halnaker Windmill
The old chalk quarry in which Boxgrove Man was found (having lain there for half a million years) is fenced off on the right. Footpath crosses ... «Chichester Today, Dec 09»
