[SunkenCiv]

Elephant tusks at Ebbsfleet. (Credit: University of Southampton)

[JRandomFreeper]

I've got recipes....

/johnny

[driftdiver]

“’These remains confirm that the deposits date to a warm period of climate around 420,000 years ago, the so-called Hoxnian interglacial, when the climate was probably slightly warmer than the present day. “

Those darn SUVs

[MN.Gruber06]

Prehistoric capitalists.

[egfowler3]

I don't know that anyone has noticed this yet but:

"...deposits containing the elephant remains, along with numerous flint tools and a range of other species such as; wild aurochs, extinct forms of rhinoceros and lion, Barbary macaque, beaver, rabbit, various forms of vole and shrew, and a diverse..."

As far as I know rhinoceros, lion and elephant are traditionally found south of the equator in a land called Africa, a very long way south of Kent, England. Considering we are talking about 420,000BCE, we cannot use Rome as an excuse, or any other "modern" civilization.

Elephant I can handle, but how did rhinoceros and lion bones find their way so very far north?

[Lancey Howard]

Those evil humans.

[Sawdring]

What species of hominin was in Englad 450,000 years ago? Weird, I have only thought modern humans have been found there.

[garjog]

[a fool in paradise]

I knew they had to be white europeans without even clicking on the article.

the noble savage wouldn’t do such things!

[colorado tanker]

I read somewhere that there have been seven occasions when humans or ancestors colonized Britain. Six times beaten back. On the seventh attempt now.

They'd better hope there's something to this globull warming.