Pakefield Discoveries

Nature this week announced the discovery of a 700,000 year old artefact assemblage from deposits at Pakefield, on the Suffolk Coast.(http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/index.html)The Leverhulme funded AHOB investigations at the site were led by Simon Parfitt, the Boxgrove faunal specialist.

The new evidence suggests that humans were able to occupy Northern Europe for at least short periods of time before more established occupations occurred in MIS 13 and 11.