Posted on 03/02/2006 11:04:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv
John Wymer, who died on February 10 aged 77, was Britain's foremost authority on early Stone Age settlement and had a major impact on the development of Stone Age studies in Western Europe. His career as an archaeologist began with the discovery in 1955 of Swanscombe Woman, the fossil remains of a skull of a woman who lived in the Thames Valley around 400,000 BC; they are among the oldest human remains ever discovered in Europe... He also carried out major programmes of research in South Africa, most notably at Klasies River Mouth, west of Port Elizabeth, where a remarkable stratigraphic sequence, more than 25m thick and spanning the entire Middle and Late Stone Age, was discovered. The sample contained more than 250,000 stone tools, as well as animal bones, sea shells and other detritus, but most important, a number of human bones. One of these was 100,000 years old, and was at the time of its discovery the world's oldest specimen of the truly modern Homo sapiens.
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