The climate, palaeogeography and early human settlement of Britain

Henry Stopes Memorial Lecture by Professor Nick Ashton from the British Museum.

The human settlement of Britain now stretches back to almost a million years, but it has been a history of brief incursions governed by the cyclical changes in climate and the changing status of Britain as an island or as a peninsula of the European Mainland.

This talk will discuss research from the last twenty years that has provided new sites, better dating frameworks, rich environmental information and a growing understanding of the importance of the North Sea Basin and the Channel region for human access to Britain.

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