Waterhole site surface with bones and handaxes (IMAGE)

University College London

Waterhole site surface with bones and handaxes

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An archaeologist excavates the Boxgrove archaeological site in the 1990s, when the elephant bone tool was excavated. The site yielded numerous handaxes and other flint tools as well as butchered animal bones, offering insight into the life of the human ancestors that lived there.

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Boxgrove Project, UCL

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