THE Leverhulme Trust has awarded £1.2 million to The Natural History Museum for a five year study of the earliest Britons.
Scientists from The Natural History Museum, The British Museum, Royal Holloway and other institutes will work together to investigate such questions as: when people first arrived in Britain, why people were apparently absent between 170,000 and 70,000 years ago.
Old and new material and the latest scientific methods will be used to examine what circumstances allowed early human survival, and what factors interrupted it.
Professor Chris Stringer, Head of Human Origins at The Natural History Museum said: "This is the most ambitious project ever attempted to examine the early human occupation of Britain. Through the AHOB study we hope to achieve significant breakthroughs in understanding when people were here and how they were able to adapt under challenging conditions."
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