Artifacts had been found in the UK in excess of 500K bp in date, and of course younger; but there is a gap in finds beginning some 1000s of years after the megaflood which separated Britain from the continent at least 200K years ago; it’s as if humans/hominids were living there and making tools, then were cut off by the new Channel, and thereafter went extinct (or moved out) for unknown reasons. Seems more likely that glaciation did what it seems to have done elsewhere — pushed the locals to lower altitudes which are now the submerged continental shelf, hence and artifact gap.
The idea that no one could use a boat that long ago of course is rubbish.
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Exactly! Almost all of what we know today as Great Britain is covered by an ice sheet during a glacial age. And what would have been fertile lowlands is under water. That makes it pretty tough to find the really old sites.
Thank you, I have boxes of stone tools that I have found in south Texas and Northern Mexico. There is not much I enjoy more than arrowhead hunting! I have a number of books from UT on the subject but they are still hard to identify, I am certainly not an expert on that aspect.