Britain’s First Homo Sapiens

Britain's First Homo sapiens: The Arrival of Modern Humans 40,000 Years AgoAround 40,000 years ago, the land we now know as Britain looked completely different. Modern humans were beginning to spread across Europe, while Neanderthals had already lived across the continent for hundreds of thousands of years.But one discovery would raise fascinating questions about Britain's earliest modern humans: a mysterious human jawbone found inside Kent's Cavern. How old was it, and what can this ancient fossil really tell us about our distant past?Listen to the full episode until the end to uncover the story!#HomoSapiens #PrehistoricBritain #HumanEvolution #AncientHistory #Archaeology Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.