Keble Researcher Dates Earliest Evidence for Modern Humans in Northwestern Europe
Monday 07 November 2011
Professor Thomas Higham, Director of Keble's Advanced Studies Centre, has dated a human jawbone found in 1927 in Kent’s Cavern in Devon to almost 44,000 years old. This is several thousand years older than originally thought, which means that humans and Neanderthals were living in Europe together, something that scholars had doubted was possible.
Listen to Professor Tom Higham talk about his discovery.
