Ice Age Britain: Finding the First Homo sapiens (opens in new tab)

Listen to Ice Age Britain: Finding the First Homo sapiens from The Ancients. Roughly 40,000 years ago, Ice Age Britain was undergoing a transformation. The first modern humans, Homo sapiens, were arriving and beginning to settle in the British Isles. Their evolutionary predecessors, the Neanderthals, were on their way to extinction. Until now we have known very little about this period. But that might be about to change with the discovery of a new centre of Stone Age archeology in South West ...