Hmmm. I Wonder How Long..

...this will stand?

Human's early arrival in Britain

"Researchers have discovered stone tools in Norfolk, UK, that suggest that early humans arrived in Britain nearly a million years ago - or even earlier.

The find, published in the journal Nature, pushes back the arrival of the first humans in what is now the UK by several hundred thousand years.

Environmental data suggests that temperatures were relatively cool.

This raises the possibility that these early Britons may have been among the first humans to use fire to keep warm.

They may also have been some of the earliest humans to wear fur clothing."

I wonder if any of these early tool users genes are kicking about in my system? Britain was populated with humans for a while and then when the last ice age enveloped the northern hemisphere, it was depopulated. So maybe. Maybe not.

In fact, the article points out they were probably a species known as Homo Antecessor. I always thought my siblings looked a little cave-manish. ;-)

"...the evidence suggests that they were living at the edge of the inhabited world in a really challenging environment and indeed they were real pioneers living here in Britain, nearly a million years ago,..."

We're a hardy lot, too.