Boxgrove Man WWW Site (posted for R. Kruszynski)

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Boxgrove is a village in West Sussex in southern England on the outskirts
of which  is a quarry which over ten years ago started to reveal part of an
ancient sea cliff. The newly launched Boxgrove World Wide web is devoted to
what has been learned from excavations by a team of palaeontologists and
archaeologists at the site since 1985, as well as  showing some of  the
finds there of fossilised remains from a wide range of animals.  Since 1993
the remains of ancient humans and an abundance of stone tools they made and
used has also been uncovered. There is now also good evidence of the type
of butchery practices on horses and other species, such as rhinos, that
these ancient humans - assigned to the species Homo heidelbergensis -
carried out by a stream which flowed from the base of that cliff, some half
a million years ago.  The Boxgrove www site can be reached via:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/boxgrove/

It will be regularly updated to reflect conclusions from ongoing analyses
and work at the site which is due to continue during the summer of  1996.


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>From :  Robert  Kruszynski,         Human  Origins  Group,
The  Natural  History  Museum,   Cromwell  Road,  London  SW7  5BD,  U.K.
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