E-resources
-
Cookson, Clive
The Financial times (London ed.), 09/2006Newspaper Article
People colonised Britain on seven separate occasions over the past 700,000 years and were wiped out each time by an ice age. The eighth and last colonisation took place only 12,000 years ago - meaning that Britain has had continuous human habitation for less time than Australia or the Americas. Britain's oldest known evidence of human habitation comes from a 700,000-year-old site at Pakefield on the Suffolk coast, where archaeologists last year discovered many sharp flint tools from an unknown human species - they have not yet found human bones there.
