Boxgrove Man Homo heidelbergensis



one of hundreds of handaxes found @ boxgrove.



in 1994 british scientists unearthed lower hominin tibia bone of boxgrove man few miles away english channel, along hundreds of ancient hand axes, @ boxgrove quarry site. partial leg bone dated between 478,000 , 524,000 years old. several h. heidelbergensis teeth found in subsequent seasons. h. heidelbergensis proto-human species occupied both france , great britain @ time; these locales connected landmass during epoch.


the tibia had been gnawed large carnivore, suggesting man had been killed lion or wolf, or unburied corpse had been scavenged after death.








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